Authors

Urzúa is a of Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland; and International Research Fellow, Clapes-UC. 

Mori is a lawyer (LLB, Universidad Católica; LLM, Chicago; MPA, Harvard). He has been Executive Vice President of Chile’s Foreign Investment Committee (2010-2013) and ICSID Arbitrator.

Mansuy holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Rennes in France and is a professor at Universidad de Los Andes in Chile and a political analyst.

Balthazar is an independent journalist based in São Paulo who has covered politics, economics and international affairs for more than 35 years.

Jure is a policy analyst and Senior Fellow at Haiti Policy House, focusing on governance, development, and international affairs.

Pyatt is a senior managing director at McLarty Associates in Washington, DC. He is also a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center.

McKeague is a managing director at McLarty Associates in Washington, DC. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center.

Sartorius teaches Latin American history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba (Duke University Press, 2013).

Austin is a freelance investigative journalist and security analyst who was previously a senior Ecuador investigator at InSight Crime.

Coutino is the Director for Latin America at Moody’s Analytics, where he has served as the region’s Chief Economist since 2005. He has also worked for the Center for Economic Forecasting of Mexico and the Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates.

Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez is a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Robles is an international relations analyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a former Fulbright scholar and former Program Coordinator at the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program.

Tamayo is an economist at Citi and head of the Andean and CCA countries.

Sands is the director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Morandi is an energy strategist with prior leadership roles at AES Corporation, including strategic planning for AES Electricidad de Caracas