Colombia election

Alisha Holland is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research examines the comparative political economy of development, with a focus on urban politics, social policy, and Latin America. She is the author of Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America (Cambridge University Press), which explores state enforcement practices around property law violations such as squatting, street vending, and electricity theft. Her current book project studies the politics of large infrastructure projects in Latin America. Holland’s broader interests include law, migration, crime control, subnational governance, and corruption. Before joining the Harvard faculty, she was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.

Gustavo Duncan holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and is Full Professor (Profesor Titular) at Universidad EAFIT, Colombia. His research examines organized crime, drug trafficking, and the political economy of state configuration in Latin America.

Duncan has published extensively on the relationship between narcotraficking and political power. His major works include "Beyond Plata o Plomo: The Political Power of Drug Trafficking in Colombia and Mexico" (2015), "The War Lords" (Los Señores de la Guerra), and a guerrilla biography "Return to Being Elda" (Volver a Ser Elda). His scholarship has been widely cited in academic and policy circles across the Americas. Recently he published The Price of Protection: Exploring How Transnational Drug Traffickers Influence Politics in European Journal of Sociology

Sandra Borda is currently an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Studies at the Universidad de Los Andes. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, a Master's in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Master's in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the Universidad de Los Andes. She was one of the seven members of the Foreign Policy Mission convened by the national government, which convened between 2009 and 2010. She has been a visiting researcher at ITAM in Mexico, the University of Toronto in Canada, and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. She has published books and articles related to Colombian foreign policy and has been a columnist for the newspaper El Tiempo, Arcadia magazine, and Cambio magazine.

Sergio Clavijo has been a professor in the faculties of economics and law; Universidad de los Andes and Externado de Colombia; and is a consultant specializing in monetary, exchange and fiscal issues.

After obtaining his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Illinois (1987), he returned to Colombia where he served as technical deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance (1998-1999) and Co-Director of the Bank of the Republic (2000-2005). From there he became director of the ANIF economic studies center (2005-2019). Throughout his career, Sergio has published extensively and received several distinctions, including the "Germán Botero de los Ríos" Award (awarded by Fedesarrollo in 2011) and the Award for the best book in Economics of 1998.

Yann Basset is currently a professor at Rosario University in Bogotá, Colombia. Born and educated in France, he later moved to Colombia, where he has lived for the past 25 years. His research focuses on elections and political parties in Colombia, subjects on which he has extensively studied and written.