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PRESENTERS:
· Frances Hagopian is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer for Brazil Studies in the Department of Government. She teaches courses on Brazilian and Latin American politics and on research design and qualitative and mixed methods.
· José A. Scheinkman is the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics at Columbia, Theodore Wells ‘29 Professor of Economics (emeritus) at Princeton, and Research Associate at NBER. Scheinkman’s most current research is on the economics of forest preservation in the Brazilian Amazon.
· Brian Winter is editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and the vice president for policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas. A best-selling author, analyst, and speaker, he has been living and breathing Latin American politics for the past 20 years. Proficient in Spanish and Portuguese, he speaks frequently about Latin America’s past, present, and future to investors and general-interest audiences.
MODERATOR:
· Maria Victoria Murillo is the director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, and professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Her research focuses on distributive politics in Latin America, including labor politics and labor regulations, public utility reform, education reform, and economic policy more generally. She is currently working on political party responsiveness to voters and on the conditions that shape the enforcement and stability of institutions.
Murillo is also the co-editor of the Latin American Politics and Society Series of Elements by Cambridge University Press, for information on the series please go to this link.
