Lisa Viscidi is the director of the Energy, Climate Change and Extractive Industries Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. Before joining the Dialogue, Viscidi was New York bureau chief and Latin America team leader for Energy Intelligence Group and subsequently a manager in the energy practice at Deloitte. She has also served as director of EntreMundos, a nonprofit organization based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, New York Times, Foreign Policy, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle and Foreign Affairs.