Authors

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.

Dolores Huerta is Cofounder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.

Enrique Krauze is director of the Mexican cultural magazine Letras Libres and director general of the publisher Editorial Clío.

Carlos Chamorro is former editor of the Sandanista newspaper Barricada and son of former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. He now directs the television program Esta Semana en Nicaragua.

Luis Moreno Ocampo assisted in the prosecution of leaders of Argentina’s military junta in 1985. He is currently chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Kurt Weyland is the Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Texas at Austin.