About Us

PeruThisWeek.com and LivinginPeru.com are part of the Peru Experience family, a company whose goal is to promote Peru all over the world.

Vision

To serve as the most authoritative and reliable English-language resource for those interested in living, working, traveling, and investing in Peru. We strive to make Peru the #1 country in Latin America to live, work, travel and invest by 2025.

Mission

To give information and provide services to people and organizations enabling them to make the best decision about living, working, traveling, and investing in Peru. We create the content and the tools necessary for people and businesses to spread the good word and become ambassadors for Peru.

Carsten Korch Chief Editor, Founder
		Originally from Denmark, Carsten returned to Peru in 2002 with his wife and eldest son. He started LivinginPeru.com in 2005, among other ventures in Peru. Before this, Carsten has worked in tourism, living in France, Sicily and the U.S., and promoted bands like Metallica, Def Leppard and U2 for PolyGram Records (now Universal Music). Carsten loves pisco sours, Peru's cuisine, and traveling with his family within Peru. There is so much to see and do in this beautiful country, he says: Peru is without any doubt the land of opportunities.

Staff

Nick Rosen Editor
		Nick, a New Jersey native, moved to Peru in 2010, spending time in Arequipa before moving to Lima. He has worked as a travel writer and editor in Ecuador, and as an aid worker in Kenya and Ghana. He is an avid traveler, a passionate sports fan, and an occasional writer.

Manuel Vigo News editor
		Manuel is a Peruvian-American who grew up between both countries. He studied international relations and philosophy at Florida International University. During his time at FIU he somehow got interested in media. Manuel was jazz music director for WRGP Radiate FM and managing editor of FIU’s StudentsWRITE, an organization dedicated to publishing students. He enjoys writing about music, literature and art.

Alix Farr Managing Editor
		Alix first came to Peru in 2006, and precisely 3 months and 2 days later, she decided she loved it. She has since worked in development projects in a variety of NGOs and gotten her master’s in journalism in the U.S. She worked at several news outlets in the States before the inevitable return back south of the equator. She tweets about non-profit work and international news—and just about everything else Peru-related—from @af_peruthisweek.

Dyana Gonzales Events editor
		Dyana was born in Peru and grew up in Chosica and New Jersey. She attended County College of Morris in N.J., majoring in International Studies. She worked as an interpreter when moving to Lima. In her spare time she enjoys literature, drawing and painting.

Marie Meyer Yellow pages editor
		Marie Meyer started as a reporter in the turbulent 1980s in her native South Africa, and has resisted becoming a journalist ever since. She moved to Peru in mid-2010 from Denver, Colorado - husband and 2 kids in tow - and is intent on becoming the best Peruvian she can be. Please contact her at mm@livinginperu.com.

Carlos del Aguila Calle Video
		Photographer and videographer, Carlos studied communications at ISIL. He has worked in art collectives in Lima, and in 2010 was awarded the 2010 IBERESCENA prize. Carlos also collaborates at elgalpon.espacio and runs the video blog Cuarto de Azotea.

Jorge Riveros-Cayo Features editor
		A savvy traveler and epicurean, Jorge has worked for El Comercio, Americas Magazine, Gatopardo and National Geographic, and more than a dozen publication and editorial companies. He writes about travel, tourism, food, and anything else that catches his senses. Jorge is from Lima.

Ross Knutson Business Development
		Ross recently completed his MBA at Tulane University and Universidad La Catolica. From Minnesota, he has lived in Peru for most of the last eight years, working for a variety of companies, most recently in the area of business development and communications. Although not the most popular thing to say in Peru, Ross enjoys whiskey over pisco, but says the gap has been closing.

Gustavo Centeno Webmaster
		Gustavo is a programmer and computer support specialist from Lima. He has been webmaster at LivinginPeru.com since 2008.

Eduardo Rivera Graphic design
		Born in Lima, Eduardo has always been fascinated by everything related to images. He currently studies graphic design at USIL.

Susana Aguirre Editor, The Break
		Susana is a Lima native who grew up in Oregon and graduated from the University of Chicago. A social scientist who fell in love with journalism, she's currently doing research in the textile and fashion industry and loves to share her writing and photography.

Juan Carlos Manning
		Juan Carlos studies Linguistics at La Universidad Católica. A Lima native, he also writes fiction, makes capuccinos at Starbucks and maybe be found planking around Peru's capital.

Rodrigo Salazar Zimmermann Contributor, The Break
		Rodrigo, above all, in love with motorsports, especially Formula 1. This conducted him to journalism. He became an eventual reporter of F1 tests in Spain and then was co-host of a program that broadcasted Formula 1 races in Peru. He is general editor of car magazine Mundo Tuerca, where he tests drives and reviews cars, and analyst and coordinator of economic and business magazine Semana Económica.

Regular Contributors to Peru this Week

Kim Allen-Jones Food
		Kim began her cooking career in the San Francisco Bay Area twenty years ago. Starting in 1995 she has lived overseas, teaching international cooking classes to foreign and local clients in Mexico, Israel, and Poland. She is now excited to share her knowledge on food, cooking, and learn all about Peru's wonderful cuisine.

Kate Mulder Business and tech
		Kate Mulder aims to be the voice of tech, business, and entrepreneurship in Peru. Kate has had multiple careers in sales and business development. She currently works with investors and companies curious about doing business or sucessfully expanding to Peru. She loves ceviche, canchita and is a self-proclaimed Malbec expert.

Beatrice Ciabatti Business analysis
		Beatrice writes about marketing and business. A Lima native, she heads marketing for Ilaria-Peru, a brand that has become a symbol of Peruvian silverwork locally and abroad.

Larry Pitman Columnist
		Larry J. Pitman is a college professor and writer who moved to Peru in 2005. He is part of the Peru Writers Group. Click here to read his past essays at LivinginPeru.com.

Antonio Tomasio Travel and business
		Antonio Tomasio is a Peruvian business consultant with a vast international trajectory. His areas of expertise are revenue management, digital strategy, hospitality marketing and international business representation. He currently divides his time between Spain, the Dominican Republic and Peru. He can be reached at pt.researchers@gmail.com.

Rodney L. Dodig Travel and culture
		Since 2009, Rodney has been living in Peru and writing about travel, archaeology and more. He is a true Lima enthusiast. Read more stories from Peru by Rodney Dodig. Click here to read his fiction at Peru Writer's Group.

Andreas Vailakis
		Andreas is a traveler by heart. Originally from California, he currently lives in Lima where he runs Beyond Volunteering and writes. Whenever he can escape the city, he grabs his trusty backpack and hits the road.

Morten Bruun
		Morten came back to Peru in 2010 after living a year in Cusco in 2007, he now resides in Lima. Morten is from Denmark, but he has been travelling and living abroad for several years. Before joining LivinginPeru.com, he has worked in the travel industry and has been a teacher. Morten holds a MA in Spanish and Comparative Literature.

David Kraatz Forum Moderator
		David Kraatz has been moderating the LivinginPeru.com forum since 2007. He is from New York and his wife is Peruvian-American. He works as communications supervisor on a commuter railroad and enjoys boating and fishing.

Karina Coleman Real Estate
		Originally from Lima, Karina Coleman spent her whole adult life in the States, spending 12 years in the banking industry in Los Angeles, CA and Missoula, MT. Karina is also a licensed real estate agent in both California and Montana. In April of 2011 Karina decided to make the move back to her hometown, and started a real estate company that now employs more than 40 agents all over Lima. She works as the Operations Manager of their Miraflores office. In her spare time Karina enjoys walking with her husband and their 2-yr old son, Ethan.

Travis Coleman Real Estate
		Originally from Washington State, Travis Coleman has spent the last 25 years in the real estate market in various states from California to New York. Working in the capacity of National Sales Manager, he has developed mid-tier mortgage banks from start-up through going public, doing an excess of a billion dollars of business a year. He currently heads up a private investment fund that focuses on real estate acquisition. He has brought his enthusiasm for the real estate industry to Peru and made it his permanent home. He loves the food, culture and thriving economy, as well as spending weekends with his family, exploring the nearby areas.

Jo Self Real Estate
		Hailing from the beautiful Bluegrass State of Kentucky, Jo Self has made Peru her permanent home as of early 2011. Having lived in Italy, Uruguay, Ecuador and several states in the US, Peru is the place that feels most like home for her – great food, great people and so much to explore! In the US, Jo worked as an Employee Programs Manager for Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company, which includes Kentucky Friday Chicken, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Currently, she uses her accumulated experience as a business owner and her time with Yum! as a marketing consultant specializing in copywriting, translation, social media, graphic and web design, as well as personal and professional coaching.