Francisco Durand is Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is professor emeritus of the University of Texas and professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, Notre Dame, Chicago and the Freie Universität Berlin. He is author to several articles in international journals and thirteen books, including Organized Business, Economic Change and Democracy in Latin America (with E. Silva, 1996), El grupo Romero: fe, fama y fortuna (2015), Cuando el poder extractivo captura el Estado (2016) Los doce apóstoles de la economía peruana (2017) and Peru: Elite Power and Political Capture (with J. Crabtree, 2017). He has been an international consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Center for Tax Administrations. He is a specialist in the analysis of business related issues and their relationship with the State, both in Peru and Latin America. He is currently investigating issues about state capture.