The Venezuelan crisis and future prospects

Francisco Sucre is Deputy to the National Assembly for Voluntad Popular and is President of the Foreign Policy Commission. He has a Master’s degree in Political Management from the George Washington University and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Mr. Sucre is Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Democracy and Development for the Americas in Washington DC and has held several high-ranking positions in various international organizations.

Miguel Henrique Otero is President Editor of El Nacional, a daily newspaper in Venezuela and is a columnist for several media in Spain and Latin America. He has received several journalism awards such as Luca de Tena from the Spanish ABC newspaper and the Freedom of Expression of the El Mundo newspaper. He is currently Director of the Inter-American Press Association and the World Association of Newspapers. He was an independent deputy in the National Congress of Venezuela for three periods.

Agueda A. Veintie graduated as a medical doctor from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and is currently employed at the Suursuo Hospital in Helsinki. She is a Venezuelan humanitarian crisis activist (Apua Venezuelaan) and a representative of Venezuelans in Finland at the international NGO Venezuela Somos Todos!

Mikael Wigell is Research Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and Adjunct Professor in International Political Economy at the University of Tampere. He belongs to the World Economic Forum Expert Network, currently curating the WEF’s Geoeconomics section. Wigell has also been a Member of the Development Policy Committee of the Finnish Government and Chairman of the Finnish International Studies Association. He earned his PhD at the London School of Economics and he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre, Oxford University.

His work on great-power politics, geoeconomics, hybrid threats and the political economy of development has been published in top-ranked international academic journals such as International Affairs, World Development, The Washington Quarterly, Comparative Strategy, Democratization, Asia Europe Journal and Global Affairs. He has also written policy reports for the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Government of Finland, as well as a number of briefings for international organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the Japan Development Bank and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. He led the International Business Risk and Resilience Monitor-project funded by the European Commission, as well as the Nordic Security of Supply in an Age of Disruption-project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. His latest publication (ed. together with Mika Aaltola and Sören Scholvin) is Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century: The Revival of Economic Statecraft (Routledge, 2018; 2020).