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Latin American Perspectives

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Latin American Perspectives (ISSN: 0094-582X) is a peer reviewed journal provides a forum for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The journal provides a vital 'multidisciplinary view of the powerful forces that shape the Americas, most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars.' Latin American Perspectives Sage Journals, accessed 12 January 2015 
The journal which is published by Sage Publications is issued six times a year and was founded in 1974. 
Disciplines covered include:
*Economics and political economy 
*International relations 
*History
*Sociology and social movements 
*Geography and ecology
*Anthropology
*Women's and gender studies
*Literature and culture
*Critical theory 
*Political science 
==People==
===Circa 2015===
====Collective of Coordinating Editors====
*William Bollinger	- California State University
*Donald Bray - California State University 
*Marjorie Bray - California State University
*Rosalind Bresnahan	
*Frances B. Chilcote
*Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli - Soka University of America
*Alberto Garcia - California State University, Northridge
*Armando Gonzalez-Caban - University of California, Riverside
*Timothy F. Harding - California State University Los Angeles
*Richard Harris - California State University, Monterey Bay
*Jean Hostetler Díaz
*Jennifer Hughes - University of California, Riverside
*George Leddy - Los Angeles Valley College
*Sheryl Lutjens - California State University, San Marcos
*Stephanie Moore - Peruvian Oral History Project
*Jonathan Ritter	- University of California, Riverside
*Jan Rus	
*Ward Schinke
*Paulo Simões - California State University, Fullerton
*Miguel Tinker Salas - Pomona College, USA
*Dolores Trevizo - Occidental College
*Clare Weber - California State University, Dominguez Hills
Kristi M. Wilson - Soka University of America
====Associate Editors====
*Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval - University of California, Santa Barbara
*William Aviles - University of Nebraska, Kearney
*Bernadete Beserra - Universidade Federal de Ceará
*Julie Charlip - Whitman College
*Silvana De Paula - University of California, Riverside
*Mônica Dias Martins - Universidade Estadual de Ceará
*Gary Dymski - University of California, Riverside
*Derrick Hindery - University of Oregon
*Gary Hytrek - California State University, Long Beach
*Cecilia M Santos - University of San Francisco
*Richard Stahler-Sholk - Eastern Michigan University
*Steven Topik - University of California, Irvine
*Russell White	
*Heather L. Williams - Pomona College, USA
*Tamar Diana Wilson -	University of Missouri Editorial Board Latin American Perspectives Sage Journals, accessed 12 January 2015 
==Notes==
Category: Terrorism Journal
Laura Cha

Laura Cha GBS sits on the board of HSBC Holdings plc.
She is also a Hong Kong Delegate to the 12th National People's Congress of China.
==Career==
Cha is a former deputy chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong; non-executive director of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Services Limited; non-executive director of Tata Consultancy Services Limited; chairman of the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong; chairman of the Independent Commission Against Corruption advisory committee on corruption; member of the advisory board of the Yale School of Management; non-executive director of the Bank of Communications Co Ltd; non-executive director of Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Limited; and non-executive director of Johnson Electric Holdings Limited.
She was also formerly vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, 'the first person outside mainland China to join the Central Government of the People's Republic of China at vice-ministerial rank'.
She joined HSBC in March 2011 and sits on the board at the bank. She is also an independent non-executive director, chairman of the philanthropic and community investment oversight committee, and member of the nomination committee and the conduct & values committee.
Cha is also currently a non-executive deputy chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited; non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong SAR; a Hong Kong Delegate to the 12th National People's Congress of China; non-executive director of China Telecom Corporation Limited; senior international adviser for Foundation Asset Management Sweden AB; member of the State Bar of California; chairman of the Financial Services Development Council of Hong Kong SAR; non-executive director of Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V.; vice chairman of the international advisory council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and a member of the China Banking Regulatory Commission’s International Advisory Council. HSBC Laura Cha, accessed 11 March 2015 
==Education==
*BA degree, University of Wisconsin
*JD degree, Santa Clara University in California
==Notes==
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Laura Kam

Laura Kam is Senior Advisor with The Israel Project and heads its European and Iranian projects. She formerly worked for the Anti-Defamation League. (She is not to be confused with Laura M. Kam, a lawyer who works for DLA Piper.DLA Piper, Our People Laura M. Kam, accessed 6 March 2009)
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==Role and background==
According to the Israel Project she 'meets regularly with top politicians, diplomats and think-tanks across Europe, the United Kingdom, Israel and the United States.' She is said to be 'a dynamic speaker and innovator', who 'manages the delivery of information in six languages to 76,000 journalists and opinion-makers across the globe' and 'arranges high profile media events and tours throughout Europe'.The Israel Project Laura Kam, Senior Advisor, accessed 6 March 2009
Prior to joining TIP, Kam reportedly 'worked for the Anti-Defamation League for 17 years, including as co-director of the ADL's Israel office,' and 'was responsible for all areas of media relations for the League's Jerusalem office'. She was also 'responsible for organizing missions that brought key U.S. and state legislators, law enforcement officials, journalists and others to Israel.'The Israel Project Laura Kam, Senior Advisor, accessed 6 March 2009
Kam previously 'worked as a press officer at the Israeli Consulate in New York.'The Israel Project Laura Kam, Senior Advisor, accessed 6 March 2009 
==Education==
*B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 
*M.A. in Social Work (Community Organization) from Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work, 
* has completed all course work towards a doctorate in Social Welfare Administration from the Hunter College School of Social Work.The Israel Project Laura Kam, Senior Advisor, accessed 6 March 2009
==Affiliations==
*The Israel Project | Anti-Defamation League
==Notes==
Kam, Laura
Laura Kyrke-Smith

Laura Kyrke-Smith is an account director for Portland Communications on its 'Government Advisory team'. She joined Portland from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where she worked as a speech-writer to former Ministers of State for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown and Baroness Kinnock. She also previously worked as a Policy Analyst in the FCO’s Strategy Unit.
:Laura plays a lead role in Portland’s reputation management and communications capacity-building work for overseas governments. She also works with Portland’s other international clients. Laura Kyrke-Smith Account Director, Portland's website, acc 14 December 2011 
==Working for think tanks==
Her previous biography on the Foreign Policy Centre's website:
:Laura Kyrke-Smith was a research assistant on the Foreign Policy Centre's Public Diplomacy programme, and now works as assistant to the director of Polis, the journalism and society think tank at the LSE. She is studying part-time for her MSc in International Relations at the London School of Economics, and is due to graduate in 2007. Laura previously worked for the British Council in Tanzania, as well as spending time in Russia working at the Centre for Chechen Refugees. She graduated in 2005 from Robinson College, Cambridge University, with a B.A. (Hons) in History. FPC biography 
==Affiliations==
*Polis
*Foreign Policy Centre – research assistant
==Contact==
:Email: l.e.kyrke-smith@lse.ac.uk (old)
==Notes==
Category: Revolving Door Category: Think TankerCategory: Lobbyists
Laura Montini

Laura Montini is a former SISMI source at the Niger Embassy in Rome, implicated in forging documents used to justify the Iraq War.
::an official investigation believes Adam Maiga Zakariaou, the consul, and Laura Montini, the ambassador’s assistant, known as La Signora, forged the papers for money.
::They allegedly concocted their scheme as reports reached western intelligence agencies, including MI6, that Saddam Hussein had been trying to buy uranium ore, known as yellowcake, from Niger. The agencies had no evidence he had succeeded. The pair are alleged to have copied a real contract to look like an agreement with Iraq under which Niger would supply Saddam with 500 tons of yellowcake.
::The story of the fake deal had begun with a meeting in a Rome bar in February 2000 set up by Antonio Nucera, an officer in the Sismi, the Italian intelligence agency, between two of his former agents, Rocco Martino and Montini.'Forgers' of key Iraq war contract named, by Michael Smith, Sunday Times, 9 April 2006. 
It has been suggested that the official version understates SISMI's role in the affair.Talking Points Memo, 9 April 2006, by Joshua Micah Marshall.
==References==
Montini, LauraMontini, Laura
Laura Sainsbury

Laura Sainsbury is a senior consultant in public affairs at lobbyists FTI Consulting.
==Career==
Early in her career, Sainsbury completed internships with accountancy firm Ernst & Young in 2008 and lobbyists Grayling in 2009.
She has worked as a ministerial portfolio officer in five months from November 2009.
After a brief internship, Sainsbury was appointed duty editor at Politics Home in October 2010.
In January 2011 she was appointed as a senior account manager at Bellenden, and was seconded to Visa Europe for 6 months in May 2012. At Bellenden she worked on 'global financial corporates and across the housing, education and energy sectors'. Consultancy.uk, FTI Consulting bolsters UK team with six new recruits, 11 December 2014, accessed 11 February 2015 
In May 2014 she was appointed vice-chair of the Young Consultants' Committee at the Association of Professional Political Consultants.
She is currently a senior consultant in public affairs at FTI Consulting. Linkedin, Laura Sainsbury, accessed 11 February 2015 
==Education==
*PPE, University of Oxford 2006 – 2009
==Notes==
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Laura Sandys

Laura Sandys (born 1964) was the Conservative Party member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet from the May 2010 to May 2015 general elections.
In November 2013 Sandys announced she would not be standing in the 2015 general election due to 'a wide range of family demands' meaning she would be unable to deliver 'the level of dedication and service needed' as an MP. BBC News Laura Sandys to stand down as Conservative MP in 2015, 25 November 2013, accessed 22 May 2015. She was replaced by Craig Mackinlay, who held off the challenge from UKIP leader Nigel Farage to hold the seat. BBC News Thanet South, accessed 22 May 2015.
==Background==
Sandys is the daughter of Lord Duncan Sandys, the former Conservative MP and Defence Secretary.Laura Sandys, Election 2010 UK Political Database, accessed 31 August 2012.
==Affiliations==
*Security Futures - former director along Adam Werritty and lobbyist Iain Stewart
*Sophie Thompson - lobbyist at Brevia Consulting previously worked for Sandys as a parliamentary adviser
*former Member of the Smart Cities All-Party Parliamentary Group
==Notes==
Sandys, Laura
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Laura Swire

Laura Swire(nee Chisholm) is a director at PR and lobbying firm Hanover Communications. 'She leads its advocacy team, 'providing strategic counsel on political and regulatory environments, reputation management and campaigning'.
Swire is the daughter of Caroline Chisholm, or Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen, the government's Cabinet Office spokesperson in the House of Lords from 2016.
==Revolving door==
Swire joined Hanover in August 2008 from financial sector lobbying firm Cicero. She was hired to head up a new advisory service for financial clients. In October 2010 she was the lead for new Hanover client Goldman Sachs. 
She is a former lobbyist at HBOS and was head of the home affairs section in the Conservative Research Department, having also worked as an environment desk officer in the shadow Conservative Party cabinet. 
She also worked for Carlton Television.
==Clients==
Include:
*Microsoft 
*Goldman Sachs
*John Lewis Partnership
*Lloyds Banking Group
==Notes==
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Laura Trott

Laura Trott is a lobbyist at Portland PR.
Until July 2016 she was a political adviser to the Prime Minister Theresa May in No.10. Prior to that she was a political adviser to David Cameron on women, education and childcare, one of just three women in a 26-strong newly reshaped Downing Street operation. Jane Martinson Trott Adviser on women, education and childcare The Guardian, Published 8 July 2013, Accessed 18 September 2014 
She has previously held the role of chief of staff to minister for the Cabinet Office and paymaster general Francis Maude.Department of Information Services, "Parliamentary Information List", accessed 07.09.10
As a special adviser to Mr Cameron, Trott earned a salary of £67,000 annually. Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 28 April 2015 
==Background==
In addition to her role as special adviser, Trott is a Conservative councillor in the Frognal and Fitzjohns ward of Camden Council, London.Camden Council, "Councillor Laura Trott", accessed 13.09.10 In the May 2010 election, she came second with 2490 votes (17.62% of votes cast).Camden Council, "Frognal and Fitzjohns"accessed 13.09.10 Being "ushered into the Conservatives’ safest ward", Trott is reportedly "highly regarded".Richard Osley, "LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010: By the dozen, the pick of the polls successes - a look at the new faces in Town Hall", Camden New Journal, 13.05.10, accessed 13.09.10
Trott was also a political adviser to the Conservative Party, as part of the Party's Implementation Team. Previous to this, she worked at Booz & Company as a strategy consultant. Laura Trott LinkedIn profile, accessed 8 October 2014 
==Education==
Gained a Bachelor's degree in History and Economics from Oxford University
==Contact, Resources, Notes==
===Contact===
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lauratrott
===Notes===
Trott, Laura
Laurence Brass

==Affiliations==
*Oasis of Peace UK
*Board of Deputies of British Jews - former Treasurer.https://www.thejc.com/news/ex-board-treasurer-wins-lib-dem-seat-ew3tqdnp
==Resources==
*https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/15-december/features/interviews/interview-laurence-brass-chair-oasis-of-peace-uk
==Notes==
Laurence Cockcroft

Laurence Cockcroft is the chairman of the UK chapter of Transparency International. His TI profile describes him as:
:"a development economist who has worked for the Governments of Zambia and Tanzania, as a consultant to various international organisations (UN, FAO, World Bank, etc.), for a large private UK-based agri business company (Booker) and for the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. He was a founder member of the boards of Transparency International and Transparency International UK, serving two terms on the former. During the period from 2000-2002 he has chaired the international group which has developed the Business Principles for Countering Bribery. He became Chairman of TI-UK in 2000 and pioneered the work of TI-UK on Corruption in the Official Arms TradeBoard of Trustees, Laurence Cockroft, Transparency International, Accessed 23-July-2009.
==Interviews==
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation works with the Rockerfeller Foundation. At a 2004 conference Cockcroft stated:
:... that TI in the UK ‘needs to focus more on what is going on in defence and politics’. In the private sector changes happen much faster than in the political or public sectors. The day after Cockcroft's forum, the Financial Times reported that there had been no major prosecutions of businesses for corrupt practices. The paper quoted Cockcroft as saying that corporate behaviour would ‘only change markedly when there are a couple of high-profile prosecutions’Laurence Cockroft,Anti-Corruption Odyssey, For a Change, 01-June-2004, Accessed 23-July-2009. 
Cockroft, in an 'interview' with the former CIA run (now Soros owned) Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty told us that: 
:At the most senior level, Cockroft said, ministers have access to information and decision-making powers that have the potential to earn them millions of dollars, so doubling or tripling their salaries can have little effect. "If we move up the scale to the level of ministers, then certainly in terms of the developing world, whether we're looking at India or Cameroon or Colombia, the fact of the matter is that ministers are paid a small sum and do find it difficult to survive on those salaries," he said. "On the other hand, the fact of the matter is that in those cases, the means of sustaining or increasing their take-home pay is really to become involved in very large contracts where the distortion of public finances is rather serious and the implications for society as a whole are likewise very serious."Jeremy Bransten, World: Is Raising State Salaries Enough To Combat Corruption?, Radio Free Europe, 20-April-2004, Accessed 20-July-2009
==Notes==
Laurence Danon

Laurence Danon is a non-executive director with Diageo plc. He was appointed to the board in 2006. Diageo Website Our Board of Directors accessed 6th June 2008 
== Current appointments ==
*Non-executive director - Diageo plc 
*Non-Executive Director - Experian Group Limited 
*Non-executive director - Plastic Ominum SA 
*Executive board of Edmond de Rothschild Corporate Finance
Previous appointments
*Chairman and CEO - France Printemps SA 
*Various positions - Ministry for Industry 
*A number of senior management posts with Total Find Elf
==References==
Danon; LaurenceDanon; Laurence
Laurence Mann

Laurence Mann served as political private secretary to former UK prime minister David Cameron from May 2010 to July 2016 Paul Goodman Two SpAds, Cameron, May, bad blood – and the short-termism of CCHQ Conservative Home, 19 December 2014, accessed 13 July 2015. , for which he earned an annual salary of £82,000 List special advisers in post at 17 December 2015, GOV.uk, accessed 6 February 2017. . He also served Cameron as a political secretary in opposition from 2006. Laurence Mann, LinkedIn, accessed 6 February 2017. 
Prior to that, he served as political adviser to the opposition chief whip in 2005, and worked as a political adviser to Simon Burns MP for four years, beginning in 2001. 
==Notes==
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Laurence O'Keeffe

Peter Laurence O'Keeffe (born 1931, died aged 71 in June 2003) was Britain's ambassador to Prague during the Velvet Revolution, which saw an end to Communist power in Czechoslovakia.Obituary: Laurence O'Keeffe, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2003, accessed 24 Oct 2009
==Publications==
*British Information Services Dir-Gen Laurence O'Keeffe letter rebuts Wall Street Journal's Aug 16 '78 editorial which implied that British Government discourages entrepreneurship. Contends that Government seeks to encourage development and new entrepreneurial incentives. LAURENCE O'KEEFFE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 6, 1978, Wednesday Page 22, Column 5.
==Notes==
O'Keeffe, Laurence
Laurence Robertson

Laurence Robertson has been the UK Conservative Party MP for Tewkesbury since 1997. 
==Background==
Robertson has served as: Opposition Whip (Commons) 2001-03, Shadow Minister (Trade and Industry) 2003-03, Shadow Minister (Treasury) 2003-05, Shadow Minister (Northern Ireland) 2005-10.Mr Laurence Robertson, www.parliament.uk, accessed 25 November 2013.
In the 2015 general election, Robertson was re-elected with a majority of 21,972. Laurence Robertson parliament.uk, accessed 12 November 2015 
==Outside parliamentary earnings==
In 2010 Robertson declared consultancy work for Westminster Parliamentary Research. The MPs' secretaries register of interests shows that he later sponsored the firm's owner Jennifer Bryant-Pearson for a parliamentary pass. 
Guido Fawkes reported in March 2016 that:
:Robertson has been paid £10,000-a-year since 2013 for his position on the board of Veolia Environmental Services. Veolia are one of the main clients of JBP Public Relations, the lobbying company run by Bryant-Pearson. So not only did the pass-carrying lobbyist employ Robertson, her major client still does. Crucially, Robertson sponsored Bryant-Pearson for a pass while he was in the pay of her client. Robertson tells Guido:
:“Ms Bryant-Pearson carried out work supporting All Party Groups, secretarial duties, publicity, arranging and attending meetings and translation services.”
:Lobbyists were banned from having parliamentary passes through work on APPGs in 2013. Yet Robertson gave Bryant-Pearson a pass until 2015. Guido has asked Robertson if he denies this is a case of cash-for-access, and what “secretarial duties” this chief executive of a lobbying company carried out. He has yet to reply…
==Affiliations==
*Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee
*All Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy
*Treasurer of All-Party Parliamentary Group on NigeriaNigeria APPG, www.parliament.uk, accessed 19 November 2015
*Veolia board member
==Notes==
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Laurence Stern fellowship

The Laurence Stern fellowship is an annual summer internship program for British journalists at the Washington Post. The internship was established in honour of Post journalist, Laurence Stern. A fund for the program is managed by the National Press Foundation. Awardees are selected by the Post. Many program alumni have gone on to national prominence in British journalism.
==Past winners==
*2010 - Michael Savage, The Independent
*2009 - Alexi Mostrous, The Times
*2008 - Holly Watt, The Sunday Times
*2007 - Paul Lewis, The Guardian
*2006 - Anushka Asthana, The Observer
*2005 - Sam Coates, The Times
* 2004 - Mary Fitzgerald, The Belfast Telegraph
* 2003 - Tania Branigan, The Guardian
* 2002 - Helen Rumbelow, The Times
* 2001 - Glenda Cooper, The Daily Mail
* 2000 - Cathy Newman, Financial Times
* 1999 - William Woodward, The Guardian 
* 1998 - Caroline Daniel, New Statesman
* 1997 - Audrey Gillan, The Guardian
* 1996 - Gary Younge, The Guardian
* 1995 - Sarah Neville, Yorkshire Post
* 1994 - Rebecca Fowler, The Sunday Times
* 1993 - Ian Katz, The Guardian
* 1992 - Jonathan Freedland, BBC
* 1991 - Liz Hunt, The Independent
* 1990 - Keith Kendrick, The Birmingham Post
* 1989 - Adela Gooch, The Daily Telegraph
* 1988 - Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian
* 1987 - Sarah Helm, The Independent
* 1986 - Ewen MacAskill, The Scotsman
* 1985 - Lionel Barber, Financial Times
* 1984 - Mary Ann Sieghart, Financial Times
* 1983 - Ian Black
* 1982 - Penny Chorlton
* 1981 - James Naughtie
* 1980 - David Leigh
==References==
==External links==
*Laurence (Larry) Stern a biography of Laurence Stern at Spartacus Educational