Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

Matthew D. Aho

Matthew D. Aho is a special advisor on Cuba and sanctions policy at Akerman LLP in New York  

Mauricio Cárdenas

Cárdenas is professor of professional practice and director of the MPA in global leadership at Columbia University’s SIPA. He was finance minister of Colombia from 2012 to 2018 and is a member of AQ’s editorial board.

 

Paulo Hartung

Hartung was a three-time governor of Espírito Santo State, Brazil (2003–2010, 2015–2018) and is now CEO of the Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá). 

 

Jim Krane

Krane is a Fellow at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy

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María Victoria Murillo

María Victoria Murillo is a professor of political science and international affairs at Columbia University. She works on electoral behavior, distributive politics, public policy, and institutional weakness in Latin America. Her most recent book is The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2020), co-edited with Daniel Brinks and Steven Levitsky.

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Bruno Stagno Ugarte

Bruno Stagno Ugarte is the deputy executive director for advocacy at Human Rights Watch. He previously served as the executive director of Security Council Report from 2011-2014. Stagno was also Costa Rica’s foreign minister from 2006-2010, ambassador to the United Nations from 2002-2006, and chief of staff of the foreign ministry from 1998-2000.

 

Alan B. Cibils

Alan B. Cibils is a profesor of political economy at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Federico Sturzenegger

Federico Sturzenegger was Argentina’s Central Bank President from 2015 to 2018. Today he is Full Professor at Universidad de San Andrés. He taught at UCLA, Harvard Kennedy School and Universidad Di Tella. He was Chief Economist of YPF, Secretary of Economic Policy, President of Banco Ciudad and Member of Parliament in the Chamber of Representatives. … Read more

Will Freeman

Freeman, Ph.D., is a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Thomas Traumann

Thomas Traumann is a journalist and independent consultant. He is the author of O Pior Emprego do Mundo (“The Worst Job in the World”), a book about Brazilian finance ministers.

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