Francisco Panizza, a senior lecturer in Latin American politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has written extensively about populism and Latin American politics.
He is the author of Latin America after the Washington Consensus: The Rise of the Left (2009), and editor of Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (2005) and a special issue of the Bulletin of Latin American Research, "Old and New Populism in Latin America" (2000).