Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

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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João Ricardo Dornelles

João Ricardo Dornelles was a member of the Rio de Janeiro Truth Commission. Currently, he is a professor at the Graduate Law Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is also a member of the Brazilian Association of Jurists for Democracy and the National Association of Human Rights Research and Graduate … Read more

 

Carlos Petersen

Petersen is the Latin America and Mexico analyst at the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group, and co-author of “Lost Applause: Analysis of the Enrique Peña Nieto Administration” (in Spanish).

 

Juan Carlos Hidalgo

Juan Carlos Hidalgo is a policy analyst on Latin America at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute

 

Colin Grabow

Colin Grabow is a policy analyst at the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. 

 

Demian Bio

Demian Bio is a political journalist in Buenos Aires.

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