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Tim Canova is an associate professor of law at UNM School of Law, where he
teaches International Business & Trade Law. He received his law degree from Georgetown
University and a master's diploma in international and comparative law from the University
of Stockholm, where he was a Swedish Institute Visiting Scholar. Prior to joining the
faculty here, Professor Canova practiced law for a Wall Street law firm, served as a
legislative assistant to former U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas, and taught as a visiting
professor at the University of Miami. He has published numerous articles on international
monetary law and policy. 
Geoffrey J. Bannister is a senior economist in the Trade Policy
Division of the Policy Development and Review Department of the International Monetary
Fund. Before joining the Fund Mr. Bannister was professor of international management at
the University of New Mexico and a consultant to a number of international organizations
including the World Bank, UNCTAD, the OECD, the Inter-American Development Bank and the
Harvard Institute for International Development. He received his Ph.D. from the University
of Texas at Austin and has published articles in journals on international trade and
development issues. 
Don
Coes is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of New Mexico and an
Associate Director for International Economic Programs at the Latin American and Iberian
Institute. He has been a Professor of International Management at the UNM Anderson Schools
of Management and a Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He has written books on Brazilian Trade Policy, Latin American Economic
Relations with the U.S., and Macroeconomic Shocks and Brazilian Policy as well as articles
in various economics journals. His visiting positions have included Fulbright Professor,
Brazil, 1984; CNPq (Brazilian National Research Council) Professor, 1995; Visiting
Professor, IBMEC, (Brazilian Capital Markets Institute), 1997-98. Professor Coes is also a
consultant to Library of Congress and the World Bank. 
Raymond Robertson received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas
at Austin. He has taught in Mexico, at the University of Texas at Austin, and in the
Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He has published in the Journal of Development
Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the American Economic Review. He
specializes in the labor market effects of economic integration in the Western Hemisphere
and is currently teaching at Macalester College. 
Pablo Sanguinetti is Associate Professor at the Department of
Economics of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has received a
Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1992.
At present his research topics are International Trade and Development, Regional
Integration and Fiscal Federalism. He has seated at the Board of Directors of the
Argentine International Trade Commission (1996-2000), and he has worked as consultant for
the Argentine Government, the Interamerican Development Bank and the World Bank. 
Mehrene Larudee [Lah-roo-DEE, accent on last syllable] received her
Ph.D. in Economics in 1995 from the University of Massachusetts. She is now in the
Economics Department at the University of Kansas, where she teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses in trade and economic development. Her published research is on the
effects of trade and investment liberalization, especially on income distribution and
growth, in Mexico and the United States. Her current research is on characteristics and
performance of firms operating in Costa Rica's xport Processing Zones. 
Melissa Binder is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the
University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in
1995. Her current research interests include education and health in Latin America and
education policy in the United States. 
Joseph R. Núñez, a colonel in the U.S. Army, is a professor in the
Department of National Security and Strategy of the U.S. Army War College. A cum laude
graduate of St. Lawrence University, he holds the M.A. in Government from the University
of Virginia (UVA), and is ABD in International Relations from UVA. He is also a graduate
of the U.S. Army War College. With 25 years of service, COL Núñez commanded at the
company and battalion level, taught Political Science at the U.S. Military Academy (West
Point), and deployed to Haiti in 1994 with the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) for
Operation Uphold Democracy. His research interests are focused on the Americas and
reflected in his dissertation research. His most recent publications are an SSI monograph,
Fighting the Trinity in Colombia: A New Strategy for Peace, 2001 (also published in
Aerospace Power Journal) and an Op-Ed piece in The Christian Science Monitor titled
"Homeland and Hemisphere," 20 December 2001. His presentations on Colombia
include the Deputy Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command and Latin American Center,
St. Antony's College, Oxford University. 
Paulo de Mesquita Neto, Ph.D. in Political Sicence, Columbia University;
Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Violence-University of São Paulo;
Executive-Secretary, Institute São Paulo Against Violence; Senior Soros Justice Fellow,
Center on Crime, Communities and Culture-Open Society Institute, New York (1998-1999);
Rapporteur, First National report on Human Rights in Brazil (1999). Research in the areas
of democratic transition and consolidation, human rights, violence, police reform,
community policing. 
Francisco Rojas Aravena, Ph.D. in Political Sciences. Master
in Political Sciences, specialist in international relations and international security,
Director of FLACSO-Chile. Director of the International Relations and Military Studies
Area of the Faculty and Co-Director of the Program Peace and Security in the Americas. He
is Professor at the University of Stanford in Santiago and adjunct professor at San Diego
State University. He has been Professor in international relations, international security
and international negotiation in diverse Universities in Latin America and Spain. He was
Fulbright visiting Professor at the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida
International University, Miami, United States. He has also been an adviser and consultant
for different international organizations and regional governments. He is Director of the
review Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad. He is a member of the Editorial Commission of the
review Estudios Internacionales of Guatemala and the Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs, University of Miami. Also is member of editorial Committee
of Diplomacy. 
Mark Peceny Ph.D., is an associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of New Mexico. His teaching and research interests lie in international
relations, American foreign policy, military interventions, civil wars, democracy and the
International System. He has published in International Studies Quarterly, the Latin
American Research Review and the Journal of Peace Research and has a book
entitled "Democracy at the Point of Bayonets," on the promotion of democracy
during US military interventions. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). Professor
Peceny received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and an M.A.
and Ph.D. from Stanford University. 
Frederick "Fritz" Mayer is Director of Graduate Studies
and Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science at Duke
University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. From 1997 to 2000, he was director
of Duke's Center for North American Studies. 
Philip H. Potter is an attorney and a specialist in international trade
policy, with emphasis on trade agreements and legislation, unfair trade practices, trade
dispute resolution and intellectual property rights. He was a senior advisor to the
government of Mexico in shaping the legislative strategy to negotiate and implement the
NAFTA. 
In February 2000, Gary L. Springer was appointed by Florida Secretary
of State Katherine Harris to organize the Gulf of Mexico States Accord Secretariat. The
Accord is an international cooperative agreement between the six Mexican states and five
US states located on the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Springer was unanimously elected
Secretary-General of the Accord by the Executive Committee on August 18, 2000. He was
responsible for creating the Gulf of Mexico States Partnership, the business counterpart
to the official Accord, as well as the think-tank for the Accord, the Gulf of Mexico
States Institute. The Tampa-based Secretariat is housed within the Center for
International Business at the University of South Florida, where Mr. Springer is an
adjunct professor of international business in the College of Business Administration. Mr.
Springer, who has worked for over 20 years around the Americas, is also President of a
private consulting firm, Strategic Eventualities, Inc., specializing in international
economic development strategies and programs, trade and investment market entry, and
crisis management. Mr. Springer holds a Master of Arts in Government from Georgetown
University, and a B.A. in International Relations from West Virginia University.