Dr Asa Cusack is Managing Editor of the Latin America and Caribbean Centre blog and Associate Fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.
His research focuses on international affairs in Latin American and the Caribbean, particularly regional integration and its relationship to the political economy of the “New Left” in Venezuela, Ecuador, and the Eastern Caribbean. He has also written for various print and digital media on Venezuela and regional politics (including The Huffington Post, openDemocracy, The Conversation, Venezuela Analysis, Latin America Bureau, and SPERI comment).
Asa has held research positions at University College London and the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. He has a PhD in Latin American and Caribbean Political Economy and a Master’s in Politics and International Relations from the University of Sheffield, as well as an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of Hull.