Kelly McBride
Kelly A. McBride directed the Carter Center’s office in Ecuador (2007-2008), where she managed a dialogue and conflict-resolution project between Colombian and Ecuadorian opinion-makers. She is an independent consultant working on democracy, humanitarian and conflict-management projects in the Americas.
Chris J. Katopis and Gilberto Galan
Chris J. Katopis serves as the Computing Technology Industry Association’s (CompTIA) Director for Global Intellectual Property. Gilberto Galan is Director of Policy, Latin America and Caribbean Region at CompTIA.
Pablo Díaz
Pablo Díaz is editor of cubaencuentro.com and editorial board member for the magazine Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana.
Silvana Paternostro
Silvana Paternostro is a Colombian-born journalist and author of My Colombian War (2007).
Paul E. Sigmund
Paul E. Sigmund is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University. He has written numerous books and articles on Chilean politics and contributed to Patricia Verdugo’s Chile, Pinochet, and the Caravan of Death (2001).
Lucy Conger
Lucy Conger covers Latin America for publications including Institutional Investor magazine, Emerging Markets newspaper and Business News Americas online service.
Aníbal Faundes
Aníbal Faundes is full professor of obstetrics at the State University of Campinas, Brazil.
Sharon Squassoni
Sharon Squassoni is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Antonieta Cádiz
Antonieta Cádiz is a Chilean journalist and correspondent for El País and La Voz de Houston. She has worked for publications like La Opinión and América Economía, among others.
Alberto Bernal
Alberto Bernal is head of research and partner at Bulltick Capital Markets.
Kimberly Ann Elliott
Kimberly Ann Elliott is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development located in Washington, DC.
Paulo Vieira da Cunha
Paulo Vieira da Cunha is partner and head of emerging markets research at Tandem Global Partners and visiting professor at Columbia University.
Anastasia Moloney
Anastasia Moloney is a freelance journalist based in Bogotá, a contributor to Financial Times and a contributing editor at the Washington, DC-based website World Politics Review.
Ernesto Villanueva
Ernesto Villanueva is a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s Judicial Research Institute.
Richard Lapper
Richard Lapper is a freelance writer and consultant who specializes in Latin America. He is an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and a member of the editorial board of Americas Quarterly. He held a number of senior positions at the Financial Times of London between 1990 and 2015 and was the newspaper’s Latin America editor between 1998 and 2008.