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Lukas Jaramillo-Escobar is the director of the Casa de Estrategias Foundation and a former director of the Information System for Security and Coexistence in Medellin's municipal government. He is the author of Political Culture in Paramilitary Times.
Francisco E. Thoumi, Ph.D., is a Colombian American economist. He holds a B.A. from the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá) and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. In his career, he has worked in several universities, the World Bank, the Interamerican Development bank, and at UNODC where he was a Research Coordinator in the Global Programme Against Money Laundering. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Tinker Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas. He is a member of the Colombian Academy of Economics Sciences and a cofounder, member of the editorial board and frequent contributor to Razón Pública, a weekly virtual magazine on Colombian issues. Mr. Thoumi is author and co-author of six books, editor and coeditor of four, and author of more than one hundred academic articles and book chapters.