Rebeca Grynspan is the Director of the Subregional Office in Mexico, DF of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, she held positions in the executive branch of the government of Costa Rica, including terms as Second Vice-President of the Republic, and Vice-Minister of Finance.

Marianne Schaper is the Director of the Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements of ECLAC, in Santiago, Chile.

José Cerro is Director of the Program of Entrepreneurial and Economic Studies, Departments of Business Administration and Economics, Universidad Iberoamericana, México, DF, where he teaches Economics.

Vivianne Ventura Dias is the Director of the International Trade and Integration Division of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile. She is in charge of the annual ECLAC publication Latin American and the Caribbean in the World Economy.

Miguel Lengyel is an Associate Researcher in the Program on International Economic Institutions at FLACSO Argentina, and Co-Director of LATN. He teaches international trade at FLACSO Argentina and the University of Buenos Aires. He has authored various articles and books, the most recent Trade Policy Reform in Latin America Multilateral Rules and Domestic Institutions (Palgrave, November, 2003) co-authored with Vivianne Ventura-Dias.

Jorge Máttar is the Deputy-director of the Subregional ECLAC Office in Mexico, DF. He has a masters in Applied Economics from Cambridge University.

Rorden Wilkinson is a senior lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy (Department of Government, University of Machester), and, from September 2002, Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, Massachusetts. He is convenor of the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) of the British International Studies Association.

Amrita Narlikar is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. Her previous and current research interests include international economic institutions (particularly the WTO), international negotiations and bargaining coalitions. She is currently on academic leave to work on a joint project (with Dr Andrew Hurrell) on Emerging Powers in International Regimes, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. She continues to be a Research Associate with the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford, having spent the last seven years at Oxford as a graduate student and research fellow.