Authors

Cameron Combs is program assistant at the Inter-American Dialogue.

Valéria Souza Cruz is public policy programs associate at Council of the Americas. 

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan was a member of the Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff (2009-2012), and is currently senior visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, India, and senior advisor at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.

Michael Layton is professor of international studies at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Autonomous Technological University of Mexico—ITAM).

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Natalia Tobón is co-founder and director of China Files, a Beijing-based communications agency for Spanish-language media outlets.

Douglas Farah is senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, and adjunct fellow at the Americas Program, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

John H. Welch is executive director and emerging market macro strategist for CIBC World Markets. Prior to joining CIBC, he was: managing director and chief emerging market strategist at Macquarie Capital; chief economist for Itaú-Unibanco’s International Wealth Management division; and chief economist for Banco Itaú S.A. He wrote Capital Markets in the Development Process: The … Read more

Lawrence Brainard is co-founder of Trusted Sources. Prior to this he was global head of emerging market research at Chase Manhattan Bank as well as co-head of emerging debt markets at Goldman Sachs.

Liza Steele is a PhD candidate at the department of sociology of Princeton University.    

Edward Telles is a professor of sociology at Princeton University.