Public Seminar Series: The implications of a second Trump administration for Latin America

Felipe Krause is a political scientist and Lecturer at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford, where he directs the MSc and MPhil programmes. His research explores social movements, drug policy reform, and regulatory policy in Brazil and across Latin America. Before transitioning to academia, Felipe served as a diplomat in the Brazilian Foreign Service, working under four presidential administrations (Lula, Rousseff, Temer, and Bolsonaro). His public-facing work has been featured in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Folha de São Paulo, and O Globo, among others.

Tom Long is Professor of International Relations at the University of Warwick and Affiliated Professor at CIDE in Mexico. His work focuses on small states, international asymmetry, US-Latin American relations, and Latin America’s historical involvement in questions of international order. He is author and editor of four books, including Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022). His work appears in journals including American Political Science Review, International Organization, World Politics, International Security, and Past & Present.

Emily Morris is a development economist whose work has focused on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining UCL she was a Senior Analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit and spent three years as a Country Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. She is currently an Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL’s Institute of the Americas, an independent consultant (mainly on the Cuban economy) and founding Director of a non-profit that works to facilitate research collaboration between the UK and the Caribbean.

Carlos Solar is Senior Research Fellow in International Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of York and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, and a Lecturer at the universities of York and Essex. Carlos directs the Latin American Security Program at RUSI, where he leads projects on geopolitics, defence and criminal policy. He is the author of Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America, published by SUNY Press in2023; Governing the Military, published by Manchester University Press in 2024; and co-edited Crime, Justice and Violence in Latin America published in 2024 by Routledge, among many published peer-reviewed articles. His expert testimony has been published by the Defence, and the Foreign Affairs committees of the UK Parliament.