Authors

Michelle Rhee is the former Chancellor of Washington DC Public Schools.

Melanio Paredes is Minister of Education of the Dominican Republic.

Joel Klein is the Chancellor of New York City Public Schools.   

Tamara Ortega Goodspeed is a senior associate at the Inter-American Dialogue where she manages the national and regional report card efforts for PREAL.

Jeffrey M. Puryear is vice president for social policy at the Inter-American Dialogue. He codirects the Dialogue’s education program, the Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL).

Thomas Farole is an economist with the International Trade Department of the World Bank.

José Guilherme Reis is an economist with the International Trade Department of the World Bank.

Carlos Danel is executive vice president and cofounder of Compartamos Banco.

Carlos Labarthe is executive president and cofounder of Compartamos Banco, a social enterprise committed to providing adequate financial services to low-income women entrepreneurs across Mexico.

Alejandro Vera is vice president of the Asociación Nacional de Instituciones Financieras, ANIF.

Carlos Ignacio Rojas is president of Fiduagraria

Robert Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1998 to 2000.

Peter Van Loan is minister of international trade of Canada and member of the House of Commons.

Samuel Dyer is chief executive officer of Copeinca ASA since 2002, a Peruvian fishing company and exporter.

Ron Kirk is the 16th United States Trade Representative. He was mayor of Dallas, Texas, from 1995 to 2002.