Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

Ralph Pentland

Ralph Pentland is president of Ralbert Enterprises, acting chairman of the Canadian Water Issues Council and a member of the Forum for Leadership on Water.

 

Steven Sanderson

Steven Sanderson, PhD, is president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, a global conservation organization based in New York. Since the 1970s he has worked in academia and as a conservationist throughout Latin America.

 

Gonzalo A. Moyano

Gonzalo A. Moyano is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law.

 

Jaime Lerner

Jaime Lerner is an architect and urban planner and founder of the Instituto Jaime Lerner. Former president of the UIA-International Union of Architects and three-time mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, he led the urban revolution that made the city renowned for urban planning in public transportation, environment and social programs.

 

Dr. Daniel Becker

Daniel Becker, MD, MPH, is a public health researcher and practitioner and is a director at CEDAPS, the Center for Health Promotion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

Michael Sorkin

Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, president of the nonprofit Terreform and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York. His most recent book is Twenty Minutes in Manhattan.

 

John F. Kerry

Senator John F. Kerry is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a five-term U.S. Senator and a decorated Vietnam veteran. He was the 2004 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States.

 

Ricardo Lagos

Ricardo Lagos is the former President of Chile and currently the President of Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo; he is also a member of AQ‘s editorial board and Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General on Climate Change.

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Daniel Altschuler

Daniel Altschuler has written extensively on Central American politics and U.S. immigration politics for publications including the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, The Nation, CNN, and Dissent. He is a contributing blogger to AQ Online and holds a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. To read more of his … Read more

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Alex Leff

Alex Leff is a correspondent for Reuters and GlobalPost based in San José, Costa Rica. He is also a contributing blogger to AQ Online.

 

Santiago A. Canton

Santiago A. Canton is the executive director of RFK Partners for Human Rights at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights.    

 

Kimberly Ascoli and Tamar S. Benzaken

Kimberly Ascoli and Tamar S. Benzaken are recent graduates of the Masters in International Affairs program at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego.    

 

Daniel W. Fisk

Daniel W. Fisk, formerly special assistant to the president and senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs on the National Security Council, is currently the senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL). The views expressed are his own.

 

Eusebio Mujal-León

Eusebio Mujal-León is a professor of government at Georgetown University.    

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