Authors

Natalie Schachar is a freelance writer living in Buenos Aires.  

Anne Palmer is a program director for Food Communities and Public Health at John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.

Horacio Terraza is the infrastructure coordinator of the IDB’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative.

Diana Castro Benetti is regional program manager for Fundación Avina.

Alejandro Garro is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School.

Duncan Wood is the director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Marc Frank is a freelance journalist based in Cuba who works for Thomson Reuters and the Financial Times. He is the author of Cuban Revelations: Behind the Scenes in Havana, October 2013, Florida University Press; to be reviewed in the Spring 2014 Americas Quarterly.

Bernardo J. Rico is an international banker and Central America development specialist.

Joshua Tuynman is a doctoral student in the Politics and International Relations Program at USC. 

Dr. Fran Tonkiss is reader in sociology and director of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics.

Sérgio Cabral is governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Fajardo is a Colombian professor and politician who co-founded the Compromiso Ciudadano political movement. He is also the former mayor of Medellín and governor of Antioquia.

Thomas F. McLarty III was the chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994 and was Clinton’s special envoy to the Americas. He is currently chairman of McLarty and Associates.

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Léon was president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and is currently the director of the Yale University Center for the Study of Globalization.