Ximena de la Barra is an independent consultant recently retired from UNICEF where she was the Latin American Public Policy Advisor. In earlier years she was part of the Allende Popular Unity Government and the first democratically elected Madrid local government, both in a technical capacity and as a community activist.

Ximena de la Barra and Richard Dello Buono have made a fine contribution to the most important question of our time: what are the alternative social models for a generation that has witnessed both the fall of Soviet communism and the demise of neoliberalism?