Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

Tatiana Gallego

Chief of the Housing and Urban Development division of the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank

 

Eduardo Vasconcellos

Consultant for the Brazilian Public Transport Association and a former coordinator of CAF’s urban mobility observatory.

 

Adriana Lobo

Executive Director of the World Resources Institute Mexico 

Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Levy Yeyati, a former chief economist at the Central Bank of Argentina, is a senior scholar at Brookings and a full professor at Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires. He is a member of AQ’s editorial board. He wrote this article from Washington, D.C.

Alejandra Oliva

Oliva is an essayist and embroiderer based in Chicago. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020 and her book, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration, was published by Astra House.

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Seth Kugel

Seth Kugel is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. His book, Rediscovering Travel: A Guide for the Globally Curious, is due out in November from W. W. Norton & Company.

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Vikas Pota

Vikas Pota is chairman of the Varkey Foundation. 

 

Benjamin Roseth

Benjamin Roseth is a modernization of the state specialist at the IDB.

 

Carlos Santiso

Carlos Santiso the division chief for Innovations in Citizen Services, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). 

 

David Smolansky

David Smolansky is the exiled former mayor of El Hatillo, Venezuela

 

Vincent Bevins

Vincent Bevins worked for the Financial Times in London and São Paulo, then was Brazil Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times from 2011-2016, before moving to Jakarta. He’s now writing a book on Cold War violence based on his work in Southeast Asia for the Washington Post. You can follow him on Twitter @vinncent

 

Mark Holston

Holston is a longtime journalist who has written about Latin American and Caribbean topics for The Wall Street Journal, the journal of the Organization of American States, Hispanic Magazine and other publications.

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