Analysts
Dr Jill Hedges
Senior Analyst, Latin America
Joined Oxford Analytica in 2001. Holds a PhD and an MA (Distinction) in Latin American Studies from RILAS at the University of Liverpool, specialising in Argentine politics, federal relations and provincial economies. Previously worked as Editorial Manager of Esmerk Argentina, covering political, macroeconomic and business news from Latin America, and former member of Amnesty International’s Americas research department. Author of Argentina: A Modern History, published by I B Tauris in Spring 2011.
Dr Neil Pyper
Senior Analyst, International Politics
Joined Oxford Analytica in 2003 as Latin America Editor. Has held current position since 2005. Holds a PhD and BA (First Class) from the University of Liverpool. Formerly a research analyst at a London-based country intelligence consultancy and has 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.
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.
Diego Sanchez-Ancochea
University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America, Oxford
Specialises on the political economy of Latin America with particular concentration on Central America and the Dominican Republic. His research interests focus on the influence of state-society relations on income distribution and long term growth and on the impact of the export processing zones on industrial upgrading. He has published papers on these subjects in World Development, the Journal of Latin American Studies and Economy & Society.
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.
