Authors

Miguel Silva is a lawyer, journalist and communications consultant. He is the founder of Galileo 6, a strategic communications, political and crisis management firm based in Bogotá, Colombia. He was chief of staff to former Colombian President César Gaviria, editor at Semana magazine, and a columnist at El Tiempo and El Espectador.

David C. Brotherton is professor and co-chair of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY.

Cristóbal Aninat is a researcher at the Public Policy Institute at the School of Economics at the Universidad Diego Portales and co-founder of Congress Watch Chile.

Lisa Sachs is director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.

Anthony Hodge is president of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM).

Francisco Panizza is senior lecturer in Latin American politics in the department of government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jon Samuel is head of social performance at Anglo American plc.

Michael Belinsky is a guest blogger to AQ Online. He is a research assistant at Harvard Business School and holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. 

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).