Authors

Akira Yamada is Director-General of the Latin America and Caribbean Affairs Bureau for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Alejandro Madrazo is professor of law at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City.  

Gordian Kemen is managing director and chief strategist of LatAm Fixed Income at HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.  

Kent Allen is principal of San Francisco-based The Research Trust and is a digital commerce analyst specializing in cross-border e-commerce.  

Jennifer McCoy is Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and director of the Carter Center Americas Program.

Michael McCarthy is a Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American & Latino Studies at American University, Adjunct Professor at George Washington University’s Elliot School for International Affairs, and founder of Caracas Wire, a newsletter on Venezuelan politics. Follow him on Twitter @mikecaracaswire  

Jeremy M. Martin is director of the Energy Program at the Institute of the Americas.  

Michael Levi is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America’s Future (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Jason Bordoff, a professor and director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, previously served as senior director and special assistant to President Obama for energy and climate change on the staff of the National Security Council.  

Ban Ki-moon is the Secretary General of the United Nations.  

Tanya Katerí Hernández is professor of law at Fordham University School of Law and author of Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response and “La Subordinación racial en Latinoamérica.”  

Noah Davis is deputy editor of American Soccer Now and writes about the U.S. national team for Grantland.  

Britta Crandall teaches at Davidson College and is a consultant for Freedom House. She is the author of Hemispheric Giants: The Misunderstood History of U.S.–Brazilian Relations.  

José de Córdoba is a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal covering Latin America from Mexico City. He began his career in Caracas working for the Caracas Daily Journal.

Alejandro Eder Garcés was appointed director of the Colombian Agency for Reintegration (acr) by President Juan Manuel Santos in September 2010. Eder holds a MA in International Relations with a specialization in security policy and conflict resolution from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).