Latin America Experts
Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada
Ted has published extensively on issues related to social movements and population health, local government, and international cooperation for urban development in Latin America. A leading Canadian authority on Brazil, his work has appeared in monographs, edited works, and a range of academic journals including Cities, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Developing Areas, Thir...
Consulting Director, Latin American Program
Desde hace algunos años trabaja como consultor e investigador independiente para organizaciones peruanas e internacionales en temas de seguridad. Se desempeña también como columnista político en diversos medios en el Perú.De 1986 al 2001 fue miembro del Instituto de Defensa Legal uno de los más importantes organismos no gubernamentales del Perú, del cual fue director en tres periodos diferentes.De...
Former Senior Research Associate and Director, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland and the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Member, Public Finance Council, Portugal;
Visiting professor, Central European University
George Kopits is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where his primary research interest is the Euro debt crisis. He is also a member of Portugal’s Public Finance Council and a member of the Commission on Strengthening the Macro-Fiscal Framework in Peru.From 2009 to 2011, Kopits served as the first chair of the Fiscal Council in Hungary—elected una...
Full Professor of Political Science, Instituto de Ciencia Politica, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University
My interest in Latin America was born in the mid-1960s in rural Pátzcuaro, Mexico, where I taught an adult literacy class to young Tarascan women. That experience, along with the tenor of the times, helped shape the scholarly agenda I was to follow for the next decades-—the study of colonial power relations, agrarian problems, peasant livelihood and resistance, and indigenous mobilizati...
Lecturer at the National School of Public Administration and Researcher-in-residence at the Center for United States Studies of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Diplomatic and Strategic Studies at the University of Quebec in Montréal
Associate Director of the North American Center for Transborder Studies
Erik Lee serves as Associate Director at the North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS) at Arizona State University. He has extensive knowledge of U.S.-Mexico crossborder public policy in the areas of competitiveness, sustainability, security and education. As Associate Director, he is responsible for a variety of areas, including legislative research, policy advising and coordination w...
ExperienceFounder of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center as well as the founding president of the Pacific Council for International Policy, he was most recently a professor of international relations at the University of Southern California.