Authors

Jeffrey W. Rubin is Professor of History at Boston University. He received a MacArthur Research and Writing Grant for his research in Brazil and a grant from the Open Society Institute to study business responses to progressive reform in Latin America. 

Sarah Stephens is executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas in Washington DC.

Thor Halvorssen is president of the Human Rights Foundation, a human rights organization based in New York.

Patricio Villareal is co-founder of Alivio Capital.

Diego Moya-Ocampos is a senior political risk analyst for Venezuela for IHS Global Insight and IHS Jane’s. He previously worked as a lawyer for a private firm in Venezuela advising government agencies and private businesses on constitutional, regulatory and environmental issues, and as Chief Secretary at the Venezuelan Attorney-General’s Office.

Andrea Román Alfaro works as a sociologist for the social studies team of JGP Consultoria in Lima, Peru. She studied Government-Sociology at Skidmore College, New York and is interested in social development and public policy.

Boris Heger is a Swiss French photographer and videographer based in Colombia. 

Stephen Keppel is Univision News’ Economics Editor and Director of Financial Content. He oversees financial news in English and Spanish. 

Mariana Atencio is a journalist for the Special Investigations and Documentaries at Univision. She is also a correspondent for Univision News in English, as well as Noticiero Univision, the network’s national newscast. You can follow her on twitter at @marianaatencio.

Edwin Julio Palomino Cadenas is senior lecturer at the Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo, Environmental Sciences Faculty.

Francisco Monaldi is the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Professor at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) in Venezuela.  

Hal Weitzman is executive director for intellectual capital at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He was a journalist for 12 years at the Financial Times, serving as Andes correspondent in Lima, Peru, and bureau chief in Chicago. He is the author of Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the United … Read more

Bernice Lee is research director of energy, environment and resource governance at Chatham House in London.