Andrea Ordóñez
Ordóñez is the executive director of Southern Voice, an open platform for think tanks that promotes evidence-based policy analysis by researchers from Global South countries.
Robert Persaud
Persaud is the foreign secretary of Guyana.
Anaís Medeiros Passos
Anaís Medeiros Passos is associate professor of sociology and political science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).
Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj
Velásquez Nimatuj is a journalist, analyst, and university professor. She was the first Maya-K’iche’ woman to earn a doctorate in social anthropology.

Fernanda Magnotta
Magnotta is a senior fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations and a professor of the International Relations Program at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo. She writes from São Paulo; she wrote this article while teaching in Beijing.
Jack Quinn
Quinn is a new energy reporter at International Business Times UK and a former editorial assistant at AQ

Michael Rendón Vera
Rendón Vera is a writer and fact-checker at La Silla Vacía in Bogotá.
María Montt
Montt is an associate professor of history at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the deputy director of the Millennium Nucleus on the Impacts of China in Latin America
Jorge Gallo
Gallo is a lawyer and art history writer based in Lima.
Álvaro Caso Bello
Caso Bello is a freelance writer, analyst, and lecturer at the University of Ottawa
Angela Boldrini
Boldrini is a staff reporter at Folha de S.Paulo and the host of podcasts Caso das 10 Mil and Sufrágio.

Mat Youkee
Youkee is a Panama City-based freelance journalist and political risk analyst covering Latin America. He is author of Forty Days in the Jungle: Behind the Extraordinary Survival and Rescue of Four Children Lost in the Amazon.