Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Medero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics at Harvard University.
Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva is Professor in the Department of Economics and a Researcher at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana.
Mayra Espina Prieto is Professor and Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Sociológicas (CIPS), Havana.
Lorena Barberia is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo.