Thomaz Favaro
Thomaz Favaro is the lead Brazil analyst based in São Paulo for Control Risks, the international risk consultancy.
Rosario Yori
Rosario Yori is a Peruvian journalist. She currently lives in New York City and is completing her MA in journalism and Latin American Studies at New York University.
Ramón Espinasa
Ramón Espinasa is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and former chief economist of Petróleos de Venezuela.
Vanni Pettinà
Vanni Pettinà is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of History at Colegio de México and Associate Fellow at the LSE-IDEAS Latin American International Affairs Programme.
Akira Yamada
Akira Yamada is Director-General of the Latin America and Caribbean Affairs Bureau for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Alejandro Madrazo
Alejandro Madrazo is professor of law at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City.
Gordian Kemen
Gordian Kemen is managing director and chief strategist of LatAm Fixed Income at HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
Kent Allen
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
Jennifer McCoy is Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and director of the Carter Center Americas Program.
Michael McCarthy
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
Jeremy M. Martin is director of the Energy Program at the Institute of the Americas.
Michael Levi
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
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
Ban Ki-moon is the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Tanya K. Hernández
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.”