Peter Birle Editor

Peter Birle holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Mainz (1995). Since 2001, he has headed the research department of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and taught at Freie Universität Berlin. From April to September 2023, he was the German Director in Presence of the international joint project Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Claudia Zilla is a Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, which she joined in 2005. From 2012 to 2019 she headed the SWP’s research division The Americas. In 2014/2015 she was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. In 2002/2003 she coordinated the postgraduate programme ‘European Political Studies’ at the Heidelberg Centre for Latin America of the University of Heidelberg in Santiago de Chile. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Heidelberg.