Authors

Gordon is coauthor of The Silver Way  

Cunhai is the founder and director of the Community of Chinese and Latin American Studies as well as director of the Department of Social and Cultural Studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.  

Yanran Xu is an assistant professor at Renmin University of China and a research fellow of the National Academy of development and Strategy, RUC  

Gerardo Rodríguez is Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets at BlackRock and former Mexican Undersecretary of Finance

Burt is an associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). She is the author of Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru: Silencing Civil Society (Palgrave, 2007).

Imdat Oner is a senior policy analyst at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. He served as a career diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. He worked at the Turkish embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, as a political officer and deputy head of mission from 2014 to 2016. 

Landau French is a former international trade advisor to the chairman of the United States Senate Finance Committee and a longtime expert on U.S.-Cuban relations. As a senior advisor with the Cuba Practice Group at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, LLP, she advises clients on trade and investment in Cuba.  

Avery Kelly is a third-year student at Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating in May, she will begin a fellowship with Corporate Accountability Lab. 

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