Authors

John H. Welch is executive director and emerging market macro strategist for CIBC World Markets. Prior to joining CIBC, he was: managing director and chief emerging market strategist at Macquarie Capital; chief economist for Itaú-Unibanco’s International Wealth Management division; and chief economist for Banco Itaú S.A. He wrote Capital Markets in the Development Process: The … Read more

Lawrence Brainard is co-founder of Trusted Sources. Prior to this he was global head of emerging market research at Chase Manhattan Bank as well as co-head of emerging debt markets at Goldman Sachs.

Liza Steele is a PhD candidate at the department of sociology of Princeton University.    

Edward Telles is a professor of sociology at Princeton University.

Louise J. Cord is Sector Manager of the Poverty Reduction and Gender Group in the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank.

João Pedro Azevedo is a Senior Economist in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank.

Rachel Schwartz is a program associate at the Inter-American Dialogue.

Anita Isaacs is the Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College. Her research has focused on Guatemala and Ecuador.

Tyler Finn is a specialist in the Electoral Observation Section in the Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation.

Sara Mía Noguera is acting chief of the Electoral Studies and Projects Section in the Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation.    

Betilde Muñoz Pogossian is currently the acting director of the Electoral Studies and Projects Section in the Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation

Pablo Gutiérrez served as director of the OAS Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation from 2007-2012

Danielle Renwick is freelance journalist based in Brazil.

Simon van Woerden is Buenos Aires-based freelance journalist originally from the Netherlands. Read his stories here.