Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

Fernanda Uriegas

Fernanda Uriegas is an editorial intern for Americas Quarterly. A Mexican-Cuban journalist, she graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2017.

 

Aryeh Neier

Aryeh Neier is the president emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and founder of Human Rights Watch.

 

Rachel López

Rachel López is an associate professor of law at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. She has researched transitional justice in Guatemala, first as a Fulbright Scholar and then a fellow at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. Her most recent article on Guatemala, Post-Conflict Pluralism, was published in the … Read more

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Genaro Lozano

Genaro Lozano is a professor in the political science and international relations departments at Mexico City’s Iberoamerican University, and a political analyst for Reforma and ForoTv.

 

Tamar Ziff

Tamar Ziff is a program assistant with the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue

 

Nicolas Otte

Nicolas Otte is the Director of Illicit Trade Prevention for Latin America and Canada Region at Philip Morris International

 

Edson Luiz Vismona

Edson Luiz Vismona is president of the Brazilian Forum Against Piracy and CEO of ETCO.

 

Raquel Ceballos Molano

Raquel Ceballos Molano, Ph.D., is a professor at Colombia’s Universidad del Valle and specializes in intellectual property and is president of IRCE, Cali’s legal association. 

 

Ryan Musto

Ryan Musto is a Ph.D. candidate at The George Washington University

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Roberto Simon

Roberto Simon is Client Intelligence Group Lead at UBS and was the politics editor for Americas Quarterly the senior director for policy and head of the Anti-Corruption Working Group at Americas Society/Council of the Americas.

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Nicolás Saldías

Saldías is a Latin America and Caribbean senior analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit and received his PhD in political science from the University of Toronto.

 

Norma J. Torres

Congresswoman Norma J. Torres represent California’s 35th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. The first Guatemalan elected to the U.S. Congress, she is co-chair of the House Central America Caucus.

 

Fernando Cutz

Fernando Cutz is a Senior Associate at The Cohen Group. He previously served as Senior Advisor to National Security Advisor Lt. General H. R. McMaster, as Acting Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and as Director for South America at the White House National Security Council. 

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Joe Biden

Joe Biden heads the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, where he led U.S. policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean on a range of key issues. He previously served as the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and represented Delaware for six terms in the United States Senate.

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