Cintia Quiliconi Editor

Stephen Kingah is research fellow at the United Nations University (Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies, UNU-CRIS), in Bruges. He holds a PhD in law from the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Following his PhD studies he worked as ad hoc administrator in the European Commission charged with the European Union’s relations par rapport international financial institutions, with emphasis on the World Bank and the African Development Bank. He lectures in the governance program at the University of Maastricht. Stephen has published in many periodicals including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, International Organizations Law Review, European Foreign Affairs Review, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, South African Journal of International Affairs, European Law Journal, World Bank Legal Review, amongst others.

Cintia Quiliconi. PhD in Politics and International Relations, University of Southern California (USC), she holds a M.A. in Politics from New York University, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires. She is a professor at the International Studies Department at FLACSO-Ecuador and a research fellow at the Department of International Relations at FLACSO-Argentina. She has been a Fulbright scholar and consultant to various international organizations such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Development Program. She is also member of the Latin American trade Network (LATN). She has served as advisor to the Secretariat of Industry and the Secretariat of Agriculture in Argentina. Her publications and research interests focus on international political economy and development, regionalism in Latin America, trade negotiations and EU and U.S.- Latin American economic relations.