Valeska Troncoso
Troncoso is the co-coordinator of the Center for Studies on Transnational Organized Crime (CeCOT), International Relations Institute (IRI), University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina.
Tamara Herrera
Herrera is an economist and managing director at Síntesis Financiera, a Caracas-based consulting firm.
Leland Lazarus
Leland Lazarus is the associate director for national security at the Florida International University Jack D. Gordon Institute of Public Policy. He is a former U.S. Foreign Service officer.
Paul Constance
Paul Constance is a writer and consultant who studies public policy problems with long time horizons, such as human fertility, ecosystem restoration and pension reform. He was born in Argentina and is based in Virginia.
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Tara Hein
Hein is a Costa Rican political scientist and a public leadership analyst at VélezReyes+ and a former editorial assistant at AQ
Pablo Ortellado
Pablo Ortellado is a professor at the public policy management course at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of Universidade de São Paulo (USP).
Sebastián Fernández de Soto
Fernández de Soto is an analyst on the Global Risk Analysis team for the Andean Region at Control Risks
Alejandro Valerio
Valerio is a geopolitical risk strategist focusing on Latin America and the founder of Valerio Consulting Group, a boutique consulting firm based in Washington, DC
Andrea Ordóñez
Ordóñez is the executive director of Southern Voice, an open platform for think tanks that promotes evidence-based policy analysis by researchers from Global South countries.
Robert Persaud
Persaud is the foreign secretary of Guyana.
Anaís Medeiros Passos
Anaís Medeiros Passos is associate professor of sociology and political science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).
Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj
Velásquez Nimatuj is a journalist, analyst, and university professor. She was the first Maya-K’iche’ woman to earn a doctorate in social anthropology.
Fernanda Magnotta
Magnotta is a Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations and a professor and coordinator of the International Relations Program at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo.