Consultants
Call,
Charles is Assistant Professor for Research at Brown
University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, and has published on
police reforms and peacekeeping, human rights and democratization in Latin
America. With the support of a MacArthur Research and Writing grant, he
is currently writing a book on policing and international security in post-war
settings, and has conducted fieldwork in Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti and Central
America. He has served as consultant to the Ford Foundation, the U.S.
Justice Department, and Human Rights Watch. He received his Ph.D. from
Stanford University in political science.
Córdova, Ricardo Macías is Executive Director
of the Dr. Guillermo Manuel Ungo Foundation in El Salvador, and
President of the Central American Association of Sociology. He
has written several articles and books about the peace process
and about elections and political parties in Central America.
He is a political scientist and sociologist.
Mahler,
Sarah J. is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at
Florida International University in Miami.
Her research and publications focus primarily on Latin American and Caribbean migration to the
United States and the development of transnational ties between
migrants and their home communities.
Among her publications are American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins (Princeton 1995) and
"Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans"
in American Behavioral Scientist (January 1999).
Maihold, Günther is Director of the Ibero-American Institute,
Prussian Cultural Heritage Berlin/Germany since June 1999. He
previously worked as research assistant for the professorate for
Scientific Politics and Public Law at the University of Regensburg,
Germany, from 1982 to 1988. He was Project Supervisor for Socio-Political
Consultancy and Coordinator for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
in Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Costa Rica from 1988 to 1995,
from 1995 to 1999 he was desk officer in the Latin American and
Caribbean section, and later head of the project group for Development
Policies of the Foundation in Bonn. He studied Sociology and Political
Science in Regensburg. He received an MA degree in 1982, and
a Ph.D. in 1987.
Rodas, Pablo is an independent consultant. He holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in Economics from the
University of London. He has
participated in the Human Development Report in 1999 and 2000. He has also done consulting for the
International Development Research Centre, Social Science Research Council,
International IDEA, ASIES , FLACSO, Acción Ciudadana, and Comisión Preparatoria del
Pacto Fiscal de Guatemala, among others.
He has published papers in the fields of international trade and
globalization, fiscal policy and macroeconomics, and inequity and human
development.
Sáinz, Juan Pablo
Pérez, is a senior researcher
at FLACSO in Costa Rica. He is a sociologist, and has published
several books and articles, including From the Finca to the Maquila.
Labor and Capitalist Development in Central America, published
by Westview Press in 1999, and "The New Faces of Informality
in Central America", in the Journal of Latin American Studies,
1998, Vol. 30, Part 1. His areas of interest are labor, poverty,
and local development.
Schatan,
Claudia Mexican, M.A. in Economics, University of
Cambridge. Economics Affairs Officer at the Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean, (ECLAC), United Nations, since 1989;
Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Centro de Investigación y
Docencia Económica (CIDE), Mexico. Visiting Researcher at various United States
Universities. Has
specialized mostly in foreign trade and foreign trade policy in Mexico and more recently has done work on
trade and
environment issues.
Sojo,
Carlos Costa Rican sociologist, holds a Ph.D. in
Social Sciences from the University of Utrecht, in The Netherlands. He is currently the Academic Coordinator of the Costa Rica Academic Unit of the Latin
American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). His fields of research are poverty and social
exclusion, governance and citizenship, and the
political consequences of the economic reform. His most recent work is a co-edited book, Exclusión Social y
Reducción de Pobreza en América Latina
y el Caribe, published in San José, Costa Rica, by FLACSO Costa Rica and
the World Bank.
Solis,
Luis G. Professor of History and Political Science, University Of Costa Rica.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan (1983-1985). From
1986 to 1990 he served as Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Director of the Center
for Peace and Reconciliation of the Arias Foundation (1992-1994). Appointed Costa Rican Ambassador for Central American Affairs (1994-1996),
in 1996 he became Director General for Policy at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. After leaving his diplomatic position in 1998, he was elected
Associate Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Costa
Rica. He currently teaches at this University and directs a project
on trans-border cooperation in Central America at the Fundación para la Paz
y la Democracia (FUNPADEM), under the auspices of the Ford Foundation.
Walter, Knut is an independent consultant, who has been involved
in several projects in education and the teaching of history since
1993: advisor to the Salvadoran Ministry of Education on issues
of educational reform, editor of textbooks on Salvadoran and Central
American history, and consultant for the UNDP on issues of education
in Honduras. He also has served as a staff member at the Social
Science Research Council (SSRC) in New York and the Centro de
Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA) in Antigua,
Guatemala. He is the author of various books on the political
history of Nicaragua and El Salvador in the 20th century. He was a professor
of the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador for over twenty
years, and also held several teaching positions at U.S. universities.
He holds a BA degree in history from Cornell University, and
an MA and a PhD from the University of North Carolina, also in
history. He was born in Chile, but has resided in El Salvador
since youth. He is currently engaged in writing and editing two
collaborative books on the history of El Salvador in the 19th
and 20th centuries."
Zuvekas,
Clarence Jr. is an independent consultant who has
worked on economic-policy issues in Central America for 20 years. Since 1997 he has been an advisor to the Government of Honduras. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.