Authors

Rafael Fernández de Castro is the Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  

Penfold is Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and Professor at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA). He is the author of El País que se Muerde la Cola: Conflicto Político, Reinstitucionalización y Democratización en Venezuela (2023).

Patricia Márquez is a professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the Latin American Social Network.

Cecilia Vaisman also lived in Cuba from 2002-2007 and is a senior producer for Homelands Productions. They are currently Guest Scholars at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute.

Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of law at Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is author of The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It.

Jorge Castañeda served as foreign secretary of Mexico from 2000 to 2003 and is currently Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.

Hernán Galperín is associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and research associate at the Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina).

Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO of PIMCO and author of When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change, winner of the 2008 FT/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award.

Francisco Gil Díaz is CEO of Telefónica for Mexico and Central America and was the secretary of finance of Mexico from 2000 to 2006.

Pamela Cox is World Bank vice-president for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Carroll Bogert is a former foreign correspondent for Newsweek, has been associate director of Human Rights Watch since 2003.

John Hope Byrant is the founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, America’s first nonprofit social investment banking organization. He currently serves as vice chairman of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy as well as chairman of the Council Committee on the Under-Served in President Barack Obama’s administration.

Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute’s Center on Global Prosperity

Felipe Agüero is a program officer of the Andean region and Southern Cone at the Ford Foundation.