Columnists

Abdel Padilla
Bolivia
Journalist. Bachelor of Communication and Journalism from the Univer. Mayor de San Andrés (La Paz). He received several awards, among them the King of Spain Journalism Award.

Adolfo Garcé
Uruguay
Political scientist, writer, professor and researcher at the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic (Montevideo). He has specialized in the study of the dissemination of ideas and the role of technicians in politics.

Adolfo Martínez Valle
México
Professor and researcher at the Center for Research on Policy, Population and Health at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Specialized in public policy and health, with a long career in public administration.

Adrián Albalá
Brasil - Argentina
Political scientist. Assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Brasilia (UnB) abd coordinator of the MBA in Public Policy. PhD in Political Science, Sorbonne University (Paris).

Alberto Castillo
Colombia
Dean of the Faculty of Government and International Relations of the U. of Santo Tomás. Researcher of the Complutense Institute of International Studies (Madrid). Former Dir. of Government and Territorial Management, Ministry of Interior, Colombia.

Aldo Adrián Martínez-Hernández
México
Professor and Researcher of the Dep. of Pol. Science and Public Adm. of the Autonomous Univ. of Aguascalientes. PhD in Pol. Science from the Univ. of Salamanca. Member of the National System of Researchers of México (SNI/CONACYT).

Alejandra L. Salado I.
México
Professor and researcher at the School of Economics and International Relations of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Campus Tijuana. Her work focuses on democratization processes and the quality of national and subnational elections.

Alejandro Frenkel
Argentina
Political scientist. Professor at the School of Politics and Government and Academic Coordinator of the Master Degree in International Relations of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). PhD in Social Sciences from the Univ. of Buenos Aires (UBA).

Alejandro García M.
Canadá - México
Professor of Political Science and PhD at the University of Toronto. M.A. in Political Science from the University of Calgary. His main line of research deals with democracy and authoritarianism in Mexico. Senior Editor at Global Brief Magazine.

Alejandro Olivares
Chile
Political scientist. Professor at the University of Chile. He has a PhD in Social Sciences and a Master degree in Political Science from the University of Chile. Specialized in political elites and public policy.

Alexander Güvenel
Argentina
Political scientist. Columnist for media such as Clarín, La Nación, Perfil, Infobae and El Cronista. Degree in Political Science from the University of Belgrano. He is a member of the Argentine Political Club.

Álvaro Zapatel
Perú
Economist. Specialist in project evaluation at the Ministry of Education of Peru. Consultant in Global Education Practice of the World Bank and professor at the Univ. of Lima. Bachelor's degree from Boston College and Master's degree in Public Adm. from Princeton University.

Ana Paula Tostes
Brasil
Political scientist. Researcher and professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). PhD in Political Science at IUPERJ (now IESP / UERJ). Senior Fellow at Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI).

Ana Rivoir
Uruguay
Sociologist. Professor and researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of the Republic (Montevideo), where she coordinates the ObervaTIC group. Former president of the Latin American Association of Sociology (ALAS).

Andréa Lopes da Costa
Brasil
Sociologist. Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Coordinator of the Laboratory of Studies and Research on Public Policies and Social Inequalities. Coordinator of Ethnic-Racial Relations of the Brazilian Society of Sociology (SBS).

Andrés Malamud
Portugal - Argentina
Political scientist. Principal Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He specializes in comparative regional integration and Latin American politics.

Andrés Mejía
Reino Unido – Ecuador
Professor of Political Economy in Emerging Markets and Director of the Master's Degree in International Development of Kings College London. PhD in Political Science from the Univ. of Notre Dame. Studies the political management of public finances.

Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano
Suecia
Economic historian and lecturer in Latin American Studies. Director of the Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies of Stockholm University. Research in geopolitics and development.

Andrés Serbin
Argentina
Executive President of the Regional Economic and Social Investment Coordinator (CRIES). Full member of the Argentine Council for Int. Relations (CARI) and former Director of Caribbean Affairs of the Latin American Economic System (SELA).

Angelika Rettberg
Colombia
Political scientist. Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). Founder of the Research Programme on Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding (ConPaz). She is a Global Fellow of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO).

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Estados Unidos - Argentina
Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is editor of the Latin American Research Review / LASA. His works focuses political institutions, democratization and the rule of law in new democracies.

Ariel Dulitzky
Estados Unidos - Argentina
Professor and Director of the Human Rights Clinic and the Initiative for Latin America at the University of Texas School of Law. Master's degree from Harvard Law School. Expert about the inter-American human rights system.

Arturo López-Levy
Estados Unidos - Cuba
Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Holy Names University. Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Denver. Specialized in international relations and comparative politics on Latin America.

Belén Herrero
Argentina
Professor of International Relations at FLACSO and at the School of Social Sciences at the Univ. of Buenos Aires (UBA). PhD. in Social Sciences from the UBA. Co-coordinates the project Latin American Thought on Health and International Health (PeLSSI).

Benedicte Bull
Noruega
Political scientist. Professor at the Centre for Development and Environment at the Univ. of Oslo. Chair of the board of the Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies of the Unif. of Stockholm. She specializes in elite issues and political economy.

Bernabé Malacalza
Argentina
Professor at the National University of Quilmes and the Torcuato Di Tella University. Doctor in Social Sciences. Researcher in Strategic Subjects of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET).

Bert Hoffman
Alemania
Political scientist. Researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Head of GIGA Berlin Office and professor at the Free University of Berlin. Member of the scientific board of the European Review of L. A. and Caribbean Studies.

Breno Bringel
Brasil
Sociologist and editor. Professor at the State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and director of the Nucleus of Social Theory and Latin America (NETSAL). Doctor from the Complutense Univ. of Madrid. Member of the Board of the Latin American Association of Sociology (ALAS).

Bruno Nathansohn
Brasil
Sociologist and document manager, with a doctorate in Information Sciences, IBICT - UFRJ Researcher of the group Critical Studies in Information, Technology and Social Organization of the IBICT.

Camila De Mario
Brasil
Social Scientist. Professor of the Post-Graduate Program in Political Sociology at the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro of the Candido Mendes University (IUPERJ / UCAM). Doctor in Social Sciences from the State Univ. of Campinas (UNICAMP).

Camilo Filártiga
Paraguay
Lawyer and professor at the Public Policy Center of the Catholic Univ. of Asuncion. Researcher of CONACYT and member of the Group of Research in Parties and Party Systems GIPSAL-ALACIP. President of the Political Science Assoc. of Paraguay (ACIPP).

Carina Vance
Ecuador
Former Minister of Health of Ecuador and former Executive Director of the South American Institute of Government in Health of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). PhD student at the School of Public and Tropical Health at Tulane University.

Carlos A. Gadea
BRASIL - URUGUAY
Political scientist. Professor of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at UNISINOS (Brazil.) Phd in Political Sociology from UFSC (Brazil). Post-Doctorate at the Center for Latin American Studies, Univ. of Miami. Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Leipzig (Germany).

Carlos Andrés Brando
Colombia
PhD in Economic History from London School of Economics & Pol. Science. Postdoc researcher at the Univ. of the Andes. He has been a visiting professor at the Pompeu Fabra Univ. (Barcelona) and Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the Tadeo Lozano Univ. (Bogotá)

Carlos Andrés Ramírez
Colombia
Philosopher and political scientist. Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science of Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). PhD in Philosophy from Ruprecht-Karls Heidelberg University (Germany). Specialized in Political Theory and Social Theory.

Carlos Barrachina
México - España
Professor at the Universidad Anáhuac-México and the Universidad de Quintana Roo. D. in Political Science and Sociology from the Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT.

Carlos Builes
Colombia
Professor and Director of the Faculty of Political Science at the Pontifical Bolivarian University (Medellín). PhD in Spanish from the Univ. Rennes 2, France. He is a junior researcher at Colciencias. President of the Colombian Association of Political Science (ACCPOL).

Carlos de la Torre
Estados Unidos - Ecuador
Professor and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the Univ. of Florida. Specializes in populism, democratization and authoritarianism. Recent books: "The Routledge Reader of Global Populism" (2019); "Populisms: a Quick Immersion" (2019).

Carlos Domínguez Avila
Brasil - Honduras
Researcher-Collaborator of the Department of Latin American Studies at the University of Brasilia. (UnB). Doutor in History. Specialized in issues about quality of democracy, international politics, human rights, citizenship and violence.

Carlos Fara
Argentina
Specialist in public opinion, electoral campaigns and government communication. He is a member of the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC) and has received the Aristotle Award for Excellence (2010) and the EIKON Award (2009 and 2012).

Carlos García Soto
Venezuela
Lawyer. Professor of Administrative Law at Universidad Central de Venezuela. Doctor of Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is former Secretary General of the Venezuelan Association of Administrative Law.

Carlos M. Rodríguez A.
México - Cuba
Professor and researcher at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City). PhD. in Political Science from FLACSO-Mexico. His main researches are about the republican institutional history in Cuba, political transition and democratization.

Carlos Milani
Brasil
Professor at the State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Director of the Laboratory of Political Analysis, Rio de Janeiro (LABMUNDO-Rio). Former Exec. Secretary of the Brazilian Association of Political Science.

Carlos Moreira
México - Uruguay
Sociologist and political scientist. Former professor at the School of Economics and International Relations of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana Campus and member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico (SNI/CONACYT). PhD from FLACSO-Mexico.

Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Estados Unidos - Cuba
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Former president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). He has worked throughout Latin America as an advisor to various branches of the United Nations.

Cecilia Farfán
Estados Unidos - México
Political Scientist and head of security research programs at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California-San Diego. PhD in Political Science from the Univ. of California. Specialized in issues about drug trafficking and crime in Latin America.

César Castro Fagoaga
El Salvador
Journalist. Editor-in-chief of Revista Factum, a digital media in El Salvador focused on the Northern Triangle of Central America. He was the first Chief Editor of El Faro, the first digital newspaper in Latin America. He is an analyst in security and organized crime.

César Niño
Colombia
Associate Professor and Director of Research at the School of Politics and International Relations at Sergio Arboleda Univ. (Bogotá). PhD in Int. Law from Alfonso X El Sabio Univ. (Spain). Master in Security and Defense, Esc. Sup de Guerra, Colombia.

Charles Gomes
Brasil
Political scientist and senior researcher of the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation. PhD in Political Science from the IUPERJ (now IESP / UERJ). Visiting Professor at the Univ of Paris I and Northwestern University.

Christopher Martínez
Chile
Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Public Administration of the Catholic University of Temuco. PhD in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago. Specialized in Executive and government stability.

Daniel Buquet
Uruguay
Secretary General of the Latin American Association of Political Science (ALACIP). Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Univ. of the Republic. He was the first president of the Uruguayan Association of Political Science.

Daniela Delgado
Ecuador
Economist. Professor of Economics at the University of the Americas - UDLA (Ecuador), Director of the Energy and Mining Observatory of the UDLA. Doctoral candidate at the University of Salamanca, Rule of Law and Global Governance program.

Dardo Justino Rodríguez
Honduras - Argentina
Analyst, communicator, advisor and independent consultant to international organizations and agencies. Country Director of Presagio Consulting Honduras (headquarter in Guatemala).

David Altman
Chile - Uruguay
Political scientist. Professor and Director of the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. Author of Citizenship and Contemp. Direct Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

David Castells-Quintana
ESPAÑA - COLOMBIA
Professor at the Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona. PhD in Economics from the Univ. of Barcelona. Master in Dev. by the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB). Specialized in international and urban economics.

Detlef Nolte
Alemania
Political scientist. Associate res. at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). He was Director of the Inst. for Latin American Studies and Vice President of the GIGA.

Diego Abente
Estados Unidos - Paraguay
Director of the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs. He was Resident Representative of the OAS in Ecuador and advisor to the Secretary General's office. Conulltant to the World Bank and the IDB.

Diego Raus
Argentina
Director of the Degree in Political Science and Government of the National University of Lanús. Regular professor of the School of Social Sciences of the Univ. of Buenos Aires UBA. Degree in Sociology from the UBA and in Political Science from Flacso-Argentina.

Emilio Moya
Chile
Associate professor at the Dept. of Sociology, Political Science and Public Adm. of the Catholic Univ. of Temuco. Researcher at the Center for Public Policy (CPP/UCT). PhD in Latin American Studies, U. of Chile. Specialized in issues about corruption and clientelism.

Emmanuel Guerisoli
TRADUCTOR / TRANSLATOR - ARGENTINA
Lawyer. PhD student in Sociology and History at the New School for Social Research (New York). Specialized in international criminal law, constitutional law and human rights. Master's degree in International Studies and Sociology.

Esteban Actis
Argentina
Professor at the National Univ. of Rosario and Doctor in International Relations from the same institution. Researcher at the Center for International Economic and Political Research (CIPEI/UNR). Former Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow by the CONICET.

Esteban Caballero
Paraguay
Political scientist. Researcher member of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS) of the American University (Washington, D.C.). Former regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

Eugenio Hernández-Bretón
Venezuela
Dean of the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of the Univ. of Monteávila. Professor at the Central Univ. of Venezuela and the Catholic Univ. Andrés Bello. Doctor of the Univ. of Heidelberg. Magister of the Univ. of Tübingen and Columbia University.

Fabián Bosoer
Argentina
Political scientist and journalist. Editor-in-chief of Op-ed section at Clarín newspaper. Professor and researcher at the Univ. Nacional de Tres de Febrero Guest professor at UADE and FLACSO. Author of: "Braden or Perón. La historia oculta"(2011) and "Detrás de Perón" (2013).

Fabián Echegaray
Brasil - Argentina
Political scientist. Director of Market Analysis, a market and public opinion research company based in Brazil. Specialist in political culture, social behavior and sustainable consumption. PhD in Political Science from the Univ. of Connecticut.

Fabricio Pereira da Silva
Brasil
Professor of political science at the Federal Univ. of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Vice-Director of Wirapuru, Revista Latinoamericana de Estudio de las Ideas. Post-doctorate at the Inst. of Advanced Studies of the Univ. of Santiago de Chile.

Federico Finchelstein
Estados Unidos - Argentina
Professor of History at New School for Social Research (New York). Taught also at Brown University. PhD at Cornell Univ. He is the author of several books on fascism, populism, dictatorships and the Holocaust. His new book is "A Brief History of Fascist Lies" (2020).

Feline Freier
Perú
Professor of the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad del Pacífico (Lima) and researcher at CIUP. Doctor in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),

Fernanda Wanderley
Bolivia - Brasil
Sociologist. Director of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research of Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo. Doctor in Sociology from Columbia University. Consultant for the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Fernando Masi
Paraguay
Sociologist and economist. Co-founder and Senior Research of the Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economia Paraguaya (CADEP). Master in Economics and Int. Politics at Johns Hopkins Univ. Ex-advisor to Paraguayan ministers. He also worked for the WB, CEPAL and UNDP.

Flávia Biroli
Brasil
Political scientist. Professor at the Political Science Institute of the U. of Brasilia. Former President of the Brazilian Association of Political Science. Specialized in feminist political theory and author of several books on democracy, gender and the media.

Francisco Sánchez
España - Ecuador
Political scientist. Director of the Ibero American Institute of the University of Salamanca. Professor of Political Science with specialization in comparative politics of Latin America. Doctor and Master in Latin American Studies from the University of Salamanca.

Gaspard Estrada
Francia-México
Executive Director of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (OPALC) at Sciences Po (Paris). He is one of the coordinators of the working group on welfare state in the Americas of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Gerardo Caetano
Uruguay
Historian and political scientist. Coord. of Political Observatory, Inst. of Pol. Science, Univ. of the Republic. President of the Council of FLACSO. Member of the Academies of Letters and Sciences of Uruguay. PhD in History, National Univ. de La Plata (Argentina).

Gregorio Vidal
México
Professor and researcher at the Department of Economics of the Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa Unit (Mexico City). Head of the Political Economy Research Area. PhD in Latin American Studies from UAM.

Guilherme Simões Reis
Brasil
Professor at the School of Political Science of the UNIRIO. PhD in Political Science at IESP/UERJ. Coordinator of the Center for Analysis of Institutions, Policies and Reflections of America, Africa, and Asia (CAIPORA). Union leader.

Gustavo Cuesta Rugel
Ecuador
Economist and professor at the Universidad de las Américas - UDLA (Ecuador). Master in Economics. PhD Candidate in Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Specialized in macroeconomics, foreign trade and public policy.

Gustavo Rojas
Paraguay
Researcher of the Center for the Analysis and Dissemination of the Paraguayan Economy (CADEP) and Professor at the Catholic Univ. of Asunción. Master in Int. Economic Relations by the joint program FLACSO-Argentina and Univ. of Barcelona.

Harry Brown
Panamá
Political scientist. Director of the International Center for Political and Social Studies - CIEPS (Panamá City). Researcher of the National Research System of Panama. PhD in Political Science and Sociology, Univ. Complutense de Madrid.

Hugo Borsani
BRASIL - URUGUAY
Political scientist (Brazil-Uruguay). Professor at the Norte Fluminense State University-UENF (Brazil). PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ (currently IESP). Post-doctorate at the Inst. of Iberoamerica of the Univ. of Salamanca.

Ignacio Arana
Estados Unidos - Chile
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon University. PhDin Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Specialized in the comparative study political institutions in Latin America and presidential behaviour.

Ilka Treminio
Costa Rica
Political scientist. Associate Professor of Political Science and researcher at the University of Costa Rica. Director of FLACSO-Costa Rica. Doctor in Contemporary Political Processes from the University of Salamanca.

Iria Puyosa
Venezuela
Researcher in political communication. Member of the Research Institute on Communication of the Central Univ. of Venezuela. Chair of Venezuelan Studies Section of LASA (2018-2020). Visiting Professor at Brown University. PhD from Univ. of Michigan.

Isabel Castillo
Chile
Political scientist. Researcher at the Centro de Estudios de Historial Política, Univ. Adolfo Ibáñez (Santiago). Assistant researcher at the Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social de Chile. PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University.

Iván Garzón Vallejo
Colombia
Political scientist. Associate professor at the University of La Sabana. Director of the Res Publica research group (Senior Researcher, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation). PhD in Political Science from the Pontificia Univ. Católica Argentina (UCA).

Jaime Arredondo
México
Professor and researcher in the Drug Policy Program on Central Region at CIDE (Mexico City). PhD in Global Public Health from the University of California at San Diego.

Jaime Tenjo
Colombia
Economist. Consultant of national and international organizations. Specialization in labor markets, discrimination and gender. Professor of several universities in Canada and Colombia. PhD from the University of Toronto.

Jerónimo Giorgi
COORDINADOR / COORDINATOR - URUGUAY
Founder of Latinoamérica21. Journalist. Master in Journalism from the University of Barcelona and in Latin American Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Jerónimo Ríos Sierra
España
Political scientist. Professor of the Univ. Complutense of Madrid. Postdoctoral researcher and main researcher of the project "Discourse and expectation on territorial peace in Colombia". PhD in Political Science from the Univ. Complutense de Madrid.

Jesús Tovar
México
Professor and researcher at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. President of the Mexican Association of Political Science (AMECIP) and Coordinator of the Network of Studies on Quality of Democracy in Latin America. PhD from FLACSO-Mexico.

Joaquín Roy
España
Professor Jean Monnet "ad personam" and Director of the European Union Center at the University of Miami. Law degree from the University of Barcelona and Doctorate from Georgetown University.

Jorge Dulon
Bolivia
Public Administrator and Political Scientist from the University of Chile. Master in Management and Public Policy from Bolivian Catholic University / Harvard University. Master in Negotiation and International Economic Relations.

Jorge Javier Romero
México
Political scientist, professor and researcher at the Dept. of Politics and Culture of the Autonomous Metropolitan Univ. of Xochimilco and the Faculty of Political and Social Science of UNAM. PhD. at the Complutense Univ. of Madrid.

José Antonio Sanahuja
España
Professor of Interantional Relations at the Complutense Univ. of Madrid. Director of the Carolina Foundation. Special advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean of the High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security of the European Union.

José Manuel Rivas Otero
COLOMBIA - ESPAÑA
Political scientist. Professor at Jorge Tadeo Lozano Univ. (Colombia). PhD in Rule of Law and Global Governance and Master in Latin American Studies from the University of Salamanca.

José Orlando Peralta
Bolivia
Political scientist. Member of the Political Research Center of the Law School of Autonomus Univeristy of Gabriel Rene Moreno (Santa Cruz de la Sierrra). Master in Public Administration and Autonomous Government from the Univ. of Santiago de Compostela.

José Paulo Martins Junior
Brasil
Political scientist. Master and PhD in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo (USP). Professor and Director at the School of Political Science at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO).

José Ramón López Rubí
México
Political scientist, editor and consultant. He has worked at CIDE (Mexico City) and at the Autonomous University of Puebla.

Juan Daniel Elorza
España - Colombia
Professor and researcher at the University of Salamanca and Doctor of Philosophy at the same university. Master in Legal Argumentation from the University of Alicante. Specialized in constitutional law and axiology in an Ibero-American perspective.

Juan Francisco Camino
Ecuador
Assistant Professor of the Univ. of the Hemispheres (Quito). PhD student at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Master in Interantional Relations from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (Ecuador) and in Political Science by the Univ. of Salamanca.

Juan Pablo Luna
Chile - Uruguay
Political Scientist. Professor at the Pontif. Catholic Univ. of Chile. Phd in Political Science from the University of North Carolina. Focuses on the effects of inequality on political representation.

Juan Vicente Bachiller
Brasil - España
Professor of Public Policy at the Univ. Federal Fluminense (UFF). He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ). PhD in Political Science from the Univ. of Salamanca.

Judith Teichman
Canadá
Professor of Political Science and International Development at the University of Toronto Member of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of books and articles on politics and policy making in Latin America, with a focus on Mexico, Argentina and Chile.

Julio Ascarrunz
Bolivia
Master in Electoral Studies from the National University of San Martín - UNSAM (Argentina). Currently he is Secretary of Academic Affairs of the Bolivian Association of Political Science.

Julio Echeverría
Ecuador
Sociologist. Professor at the Central University of Ecuador. Doctor in Sociology from Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy). Specialized in political and institutional analysis, sociology of culture and urbanism.

Kevin Parthenay
Francia
Full Professor of Political Science at the Univ. of Tours and researcher at the Political Observatory of Latin America (OPALC) at Sciences Po (Paris). PhD in Comparative Politics from Sciences Po. Specialized in comparative regionalisms and Latin American politics.

Lajos Kossuth
Perú
Economist. Doctorate in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Warwick. Master in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Specialist in behavioral sciences and analysis and implementation of public policies.

Laura Gamboa
Estados Unidos - Colombia
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. Her main interst is on institutions and political regimes in Latin America.

Laura Palermo
Estados Unidos - Argentina
Professor of the Human Biology Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York. PhD in Virology from Cornell University. Former Scientific Research Associate at Columbia University Medical Center.

Leiza Brumat
Argentina
Political scientist. Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. PhD in Political Science by FLACSO-Argentina. Main interest in regional integration and migration processes .

León Padilla
Ecuador
Economist. Professor and researcher at the Univ. of the Americas (Ecuador). PhD in Economics and Business from Autonomous Univ, of Madrid and Master in International Econ. from the same university. Specialized in macroeconomics and international economy.

Leonardo Magalhães
BRASIL - ITALIA
Specialist in public opinion, big data and electoral forecasting. Project Coordinator for Latin America of the company AtlasIntel. PhD student in Political Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Leonardo Weller
Brasil
Economic Historian. Lecturer at São Paulo School of Economics of Fundação Getulio Vargas (EESP/FGV). Honorary Researcher at University College London. PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Loris Zanatta
Italia
Professor of Latin American History at the University of Bologna at its headquarters in Italy and Argentina. Author, among others books, of: "Eva Perón. Una biografía política" (2011), "Historia de América Latina. De la colonia al siglo XXI" (2012).

Luciana Veiga
Brasil
Political Scientist. Professor at the Federal Univ. of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ (currently IESP / UERJ). Post-Doctorate at the University of California in Irvine. President of the Brazilian Political Science Association (ABCP).

Lucila Nejamiks
Argentina
Profesora de la Univ. Nac. de San Martín (UNSAM). Doctora en C. Sociales por la Univ. de Buenos Aires (UBA). Máster por la Univ. Rey Juan Carlos (España). Investigadora CONICET en el IDAES/UNSAM. Especializada en migraciones, genero y derechos humanos.

Ludmila Quirós
Argentina
Political scientist. Researcher at the Center for the Study of Transnational Organized Crime of the National University of La Plata. Member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC) of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).

Luicy Perdoza
México
Political scientist. Pofessor and researcher at the Center for International Studies of El Colegio de México. Associate researcher of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies - GIGA (Germany). She specializes in migration policy.

Luis Pásara
España - Perú
Sociologist of law. He has studied the justice systems in Latin America, a subject on which he has published extensively. He has taught in Peru, Spain, Argentina and Mexico. He is a senior fellow of the Due Process of Law Foundation.

Magdalena López
Estados Unidos - Venezuela
Political scientist. Researcher at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies of the University of Notre Dame and the Center for International Studies of the University Institute of Lisbon (CEI/IUL). PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.

Magna Inácio
Brasil
Professor at the Dep. of Political Science of the Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Former director of the Center for Legislative Studies of UFMG. PhD in Pol. Science, UFMG. Specialized in Legislative studies, coalition governments and presidencialism.

Manuel Alcántara
España-Colombia
Professor of Political Science at the University of Salamanca and UPB (Medellín). Latest books (2020): "El oficio de político" (2nd. ed., Tecnos (Madrid) and in co-edition with Porfirio Cardona-Restrepo "Dilemas de la representación democrática" (Tirant lo Blanch, Colombia).

Marcelo Moriconi
Portugal-Argentina
Professor and researcher at the Center for International Studies of the Univ. Institute of Lisbon (CEI/IUL). PhD in Contemporary Political Processes from the Univ. of Salamanca. Specialist in corruption, illegal markets and criminality.

Marcus Oliveira
Coord. de Marketing - BRASIL
Marketing manager of Latinoamérica21. Journalist with specialization in strategic communication and digital marketing. Experience in content marketing, creation of advertising campaigns and events.

María Clara Medina
Suecia - Argentina
Associate Professor at the Dep. of Global Studies and Doctor at the Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden). President of CEISAL, European Council of Social Research in Latin America (2019-2022). Member of the Board of Directors of the Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies.

Maria Isabel Santos Lima
TRADUCTORA / TRANSLATOR - BRASIL
Master's student in Political Science at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Graduated in International Relations at Fedeal Fluminense University (Rio de Janeiro).

Maria Regina Soares de Lima
Brasil
Professor and researcher at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State Universityt of Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ). Coordinator of the South American Political Observatory (OPSA). PhD in Political Science from Vanderbilt University.

María Reneé Barrientos
Bolivia
Master in Latin American Studies and Doctoral candidate in Rule of Law and Global Governance from the University of Salamanca. Her main research área is on Latin America political systems.

María Teresa Zegada
Bolivia
Sociologist, member of the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Reality - CERES (Cochabamba). PhD in Social and Political Processes in Latin America, University of Arts and Social Sciences - ARCIS (Chile).

María Villarreal
BRASIL - ECUADOR
Political scientist. Researcher at Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). PhD in Political Science, Complutense Univ. of Madrid. Focused on international migration, cooperation, development and human rights.

Mariana Borges
Reino Unido - Brasil
Political scientist. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. PhD from Northwestern University. Focuses on political behavior, political parties and elections.

Mariana Llanos
ALEMANIA - ARGENTINA
Political scientist. Senior researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies - GIGA (Germany). Former Secretary General of the Latin American Association of Political Science - ALACIP. Specialized in comparative political institutions in L.A.

Marianna Albuquerque
Brasil
Assistant Coordinator of the South American Political Observatory (OPSA). Member of the Centro Brasil no Clima (CBC). PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Social and Political Studies of Political Science (IESP/UERJ).

Maribel Aponte-García
Puerto Rico
Economist. Professor and researcher at the Graduate School of Business and the Social Science Research Center of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (San Juan); and Representative of the Caribbean region, CLACSO.

Martha Ardila
Colombia
Political Scientist. Research Professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogotá). Doctor in Political Science and International Relations. Editor of the OASIS magazine. Her main areas of interest is Latin American international relations.

Martha Singer
México
Professor at the Center for Political Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Doctor in Political and Social Sciences from UNAM. Focuses on the Mexican political system, participation and political representation.

Martín Tanaka
Perú
Political scientist. Senior Lecturer at the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and researcher at the Peruvian Studies Institute (IEP). PhD in Political Science from FLACSO-Mexico.

Maryhen Jimenez Morales
Reino Unido - Venezuela
Political scienteist. Postdoctoral researcher at the Latin American Center of the Univ. of Oxford. PhD in Political Science from the University of Oxford. She studies democratization processes in comparative perspective and authoritarianism in Latin America.

Melany Barragán
ESPAÑA
Political scientist. Professor at the University of Valencia and external lecturer at the Univ. of Frankfurt. Doctor in Rule of Law and Global Governance, Univ. of Salamanca. Specialized in political elites, representation, party systems and comparative politics.

Mercedes García Montero
España
Professor of Political Science and PhD in Political Science of the Administration and in the U. of Salamanca.Former director of the Institute of Ibero-America of the U. of Salamanca. Specialized in political institutions of Latin America.

Merike Blofield
Alemania - Finlandia
Director of the GIGA Institute for Latin America Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami (until 2019). PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina.

Milagros Campos
Perú
Lawyer and political scientist. Professor at the Pontificia Univ. Católica del Perú (PUCP). Master and PhD in Political Sciene from the same university. Member of the High Level Commission for Political Reform.

Miriam Dowd
Estados Unidos
Marketing Manager of FocusEconomics, a macroeconomic research consultancy. Master in Marketing, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and in Irish Literature, University College Dublin (Ireland). She has worked in NGOs and multinationals.

Miriam Gomes Saraiva
Brasil
Professor and researcher of the Post Graduate Program in International Relations at the Univ. of the State of Rio de Janeiro. PhD in Political Science from the Complutense Univ. of Madrid. Post-Doctorate at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).

Monica Bruckmann
BRASIL - PERÚ
Sociologist. Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Coordinates the Working Group on Geopolitics, Regional Integration and the Global System of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

Monica Hirst
Argentina - Brasil
Professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT) and visiting professor and at IESP/UERJ (Rio de Janeiro). PhD in International Strategic Studies from Univ. Federal do Rio Grando do Sul (Brazil).

Nastassja Rojas Silva
Colombia - Venezuela
Political Scientist. She teaches at the Pontifícia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia). Master in International Relations. PhD student at the National University of Colombia. Main interest in migrations, gender and Venezuela.

Nicolas Liendo
Colombia - Argentina
Political scientist. PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Univ. of Arizona. Former Dean of the School of Politics and International Relations of Sergio Arboleda Univ. (Colombia). Research on elections and right-wing parties in L.A., and conflict and human rights in Colombia.

Nicolas Miranda
España - Chile
Guest Researcher at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies - CEPC (Madrid). PhD in Rule of Law and Global Governance and Master in Latin American Studies from the Univ. of Salamanca. Master Degree in Political Science from the Univ. of Chile.

Octavio Amorim Neto
Brasil
Political scientist. Professor at Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration of Getulio Vargas Foundation (EBAPE/FGV). PhD in Political Science, University of California-San Diego. Specialized in comparative politics and foreign policy, among other areas.

Pablo Vommaro
Argentina
Professor at the Univ. of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Associate Researcher of CONICET and the Research Institute Gino Germani (IIGG/UBA). Co-coordinates the Youth and Policy Studies Group do IIGG. Director of Research at CLACSO. PhD in Social Sciences from UBA.

Paulo M. Buss
Brasil
Professor Emeritus of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Fiocruz (Rio de Janeiro) Director of the Center for International Health Relations (CRIS) at Fiocruz. Full Member of the National Academy of Medicine of Brazil.

Pedro Silva Barros
Brasil
Economist. He works at the Institute of Applied Economic Research -IPEA (Rio de Janeiro). He was Director of Economic Affairs of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). PhD in Latin American Integration from the University of Sao Paulo (USP).

Pedro Trujillo
Guatemala - España
Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Political Studies, International Rel. and Journalism at Francisco Marroquín Univ. (Guatemala). Doctor in Peace and International Security (IUGGM-UNED, Guatemala). Founding partner of ConCriterio, a journalistic company.

Peter Siavelis
Estados Unidos
Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Wake Forest University. He is a Fellow of Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Chile. PhD from Georgetown University.

Pía Riggirozzi
Reino Unido - Argentina
Professor of International Politics at the University of Southampton (England). PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Warwick. Master in International Relations from the University of Miami and FLACSO-Argentina.

Rafael Capurro
Alemania - Uruguay
Philosopher and researcher in Information Science. Professor at the Stuttgart Media University. PhD of Philosophy from the University of Düsseldorf. Post-doctorate at the University of Stuttgart. He is dedicated to the ethics of information.

Raúl Delgado Wise
México
Research Professor of the PhD in Development Studies at the Autonomous Univers. of Zacatecas (UAZ). President of the International Network on Migration and Development. Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Migration, Development and Human Rights.

Raúl Sánchez Urribarri
Australia - Venezuela
Lawyer and political scientist. Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia). Secretary of the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

Ricardo Aceves
MÉXICO
Economist. Analyst of markets and sustainable investments at Dow Jones. Post-graduate degree in Economics and International Business from the Faculty of Economics of the Hochschule Schmalkalden (Germany).

Roberto Dias
Brasil
Editorial Secretary of the newspaper Folha de São Paulo. He holds a Master Degree in Journalism from the Univ. of Barcelona and Columbia University. He has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the Univ. of Sao Paulo (USP).

Roberto Gargarella
Argentina
Sociologist. Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the Torcuato di Tella University. PhD in Law from the University of Buenos Aires, L.L.M. University of Chicago Law School and J.S.D. University of Chicago. Post-Doctorate at Balliol College (Oxford).

Robson Dias da Silva
Brasil
Economist. Professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). PhD in Economic Development from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He was a visiting professor at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University.

Rossana Castiglioni
Chile - Uruguay
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and History of the Diego Portales Univ. (Chile). PhD in Political Science from the Univ. of Notre Dame. She has been a visiting professor at the univeristies of Harvard, Leiden and Oxford, and at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Salvador Martí i Puig
España
Professor of Political Science at the Univ. of Girona and member of the Center for International Relations of Barcelona (CIDOB). PhD in Political Science and Administration. Master in Latin American Studies. He research about democratization processes in L. A.

Santiago Basabe
Ecuador
Political scientist. Dean of the Department of Political Studies of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO - Ecuador. Georg Foster Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. PhD in Political Science from FLACSO-Ecuador.

Scott Morgenstern
Estados Unidos
Political scientist, Associate Professor at the Univ. of Pittsburgh and former Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. He has been a professor at Duke University, CIDE (Mexico) and Univ. of Salamanca (Spain). Specialized in parties and electoral systems in L.A.

Sérgio Abranches
Brasil
Sociologist and writer. CBN radio commentator. Latest books: "Presidencialismo de Coalizão: Raízes e Evolução do Modelo Político Brasileiro" (2018) and "O tempo dos governantes incidentais" (2020)". National Literary Award Pen Clube of Brasil, 2018.

Sergio Angel
Colombia
Professor and researcher of the Cuba Program of the Sergio Arboleda Univ. (Bogotá). PhD in Political Studies and International Relations from the National Univ. of Colombia. Editor of the Journal Foro Cubano. Coordinator of the Observatory of Academic Freedom of Cuba (OLA).

Silvia Otero
Colombia
Professor at the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá). PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University. Researches issues related to social inequality, armed conflicts and sub-national politics.

Soraia Marcelino Vieira
Brasil
Professor at the Universidad Federal Fluminense (UFF). PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ). Her lines of research are political parties, political elites and public policies.

Stéphanie López Villamil
Colombia
Political scientist. Professor at the National University of Colombia. PhD in Political Studies and International Relations at the Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences-Po) of Strasbourg (France) Specialized in migration policies in L. A.

Tahina Ojeda
España - Venezuela
Professor and researcher associated to the Inst. for Development and Cooperation of the Complutense Univ. of Madrid (IUDC/UCM). Director of the Master Degree in Development and International Coop. at the Ortega y Gasset Institute. Doctor in Political Science from UCM.

Todd Eisenstadt
Estados Unidos
Political scientist. Professor at the American University (Washington, D.C.) and Director of Studies for the Center for Environmental Policy (CEP). Co-author of the book "Who Speaks for Nature?" (Oxford University Press 2019).

Tokichen Tricot
Chile
Political scientist. External professor at the University of Girona (Spain). Academic director of SIT Study Abroad. PhD in Contemporary Political Processes from the University of Salamanca. Specialized in social movements and indigenous movements in Latin America.

Ugo Pipitone
México - Italia
Professor and researcher at CIDE (Mexico). Author of "La salida del atraso" (2020); "Un eterno comienzo (2017)"; "La esperanza y el delirio. Una historia de la izquierda en América Latina" (2015).

Vicente Palermo
Argentina
Political scientist and essayist. Degree in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Founder of the Argentine Political Club. Winner of the National Culture Award in 2012 and the Platinum Konex Award in 2016.

Vladimir Rozón
República Dominicana
Coordinator of the Unit Political Parties and Electoral Systems of the Dominican Political Observatory (OPD) of Democracy and Development Global Found. (FUNGLODE). PhD student in Rule of Law and Global Governance at the Univ. of Salamanca.

Xavier Rodríguez-Franco
VENEZUELA
Politial Scientist. Producer of the podcast of Latinoamérica21. Graduated from the Univ. Central de Venezuela and the Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona. Master in Latina American Studies of the University of Salamanca. Editor of Parlamundi Venezuela.
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