Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez is an international finance faculty member at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and a weekly political columnist for the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional. Lansberg-Rodríguez is also director for the Latin American region at Greenmantle LLC, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advising firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a fellow at the Comparative Constitutions Project. His teaching and research focus includes political economy, as well as the constitutional and institutional development in emerging states around the world. Lansberg-Rodríguez is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy, Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, and his analyses have likewise appeared in Harper’s, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Economist, Boston Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Lansberg-Rodríguez worked at Fundación Eugenio Mendoza from 2005 to 2007, where he specialized in urban microfinance, and he was the division head for entrepreneurial development for the Sucre municipal government in Caracas from 2009 to 2010. His other work experience includes time in the private wealth management division of Goldman Sachs, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Lansberg-Rodríguez received his bachelor cum laude from Carleton College, a law degree from the University of Chicago, and a master in public policy with a concentration in international trade and finance from the Harvard Kennedy School.