John Crabtree is a Research Associate at the Latin American Studies Centre, University of Oxford, a Senior Member of Saint Antony's College, Oxford, and (currently) a Visiting Researcher at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. His most recent published books are Bolivia: Processes of Change co-authored with Ann Chaplin (Zed 2013), and Fractured Politics: Peruvian Democracy Past and Present (2011).
Francisco Durand is a Research Associate at DESCO-Centro de Estudios de Promocion del Desarrollo and Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). His books in English include Business and Politics in Peru (1993), and Organized Business, Democracy and Economic Change (1996).