Latin America
Dr Jill Hedges
Senior Editor, Latin America
Joined Oxford Analytica in May 2001. Ph.D. and MA (distinction) in Latin American Studies, ILAS, University of Liverpool, specialising in Argentine politics, federal relations and provincial economies. Formerly Editorial Manager of Esmerk Argentina, covering political, macroeconomic and business news from Latin America, and former member of Amnesty International Americas Research Department. Two books pending publication, on Argentine politics since 1945 and on human rights in Latin America.
Dr Neil Pyper
Senior Editor, International Politics
Current position since May 2005; previously Latin America Editor, Oxford Analytica. Formerly a research analyst at a London-based country intelligence consultancy; also taught at the University of Liverpool. Has published reports and features in Jane's Sentinel and Jane's Defence Weekly, and given regular media interviews. Holds a PhD and BA (First Class), University of Liverpool.
Region Heads
John Crabtree
Founder and former Editor of the Oxford Analytica Latin America Daily Brief. Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London (1997-99). Former Visiting Fellow at Sao Paulo University, Brazil and at the Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru. Was also Lima correspondent for The Guardian and The Economist. Author of Peru under Garcia and Fujimori’s Peru: The Political Economy.
Dr Laurence Whitehead
Senior Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Also Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College, University of Oxford and Director of the Centre for Mexican Studies, University of Oxford. Author of the Democratisation: Theory and Experience and Emerging Market Democracies: East Asia/Latin America. Editor of The Journal of Latin American Studies, 1989 - 2001, and Oxford Studies in Democratisation, 1996 - 2003.
