Alex provides strategic leadership in defining the policy goals that guide CEPR’s international work and shaping the team’s near- and long-term project agenda to advance them. In addition he monitors economic and political developments in Latin American and the Caribbean and regularly engages with policymakers and civil society groups throughout the hemisphere. His areas of expertise include global economic governance, the impact of US policy in the Western Hemisphere, economic sanctions, and Latin American and Caribbean integration and multilateralism. Alex’s analyses have been published in numerous US and international outlets, including The New York Times, Folha de São Paulo, Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Times, The Hill, Dissent, Pagina 12, and Le Monde diplomatique. Prior to CEPR, Alex spent more than six years in Latin America working as a foreign policy analyst and an international cooperation consultant. He holds degrees in history and political science from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and is fluent in Spanish and French.