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' writing. 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.

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.

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.

Milenka Frkovich
		Milenka is a Peruvian currently studying marketing at the University of Lima with plans to graduate this year. She has a passion for music and loves to sing and is currently working on her first album. She is also interested in fashion, photography and sports, and she lives for food!

Susana Aguirre
		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.

Sami Alcedo
		Sami is a Peruvian senior medstudent, a passionate traveler, a free thinker and a knowledge-seeker. Copious amounts of wanderlust are always boiling in her being.

Nancy Guima
		Nancy is a Japanese-Peruvian who loves learning foreign languages and cultures, so she decided to study translation and interpreting. Currently she is part of a project sponsored by Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) to search for neologisms in Peruvian newspapers. She is also interested in literature, art and sports.

Rodrigo Salazar Zimmermann
		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.

Roxana Garmendia Columnist
		Roxana Garmendia is a lawyer specializing in human rights and international relations. She served in high-ranking positions for the United Nations in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, primarily in post-conflict societies. She is currently residing in her native Peru and working as a consultant on human rights issues.

Antonio Tomasio Columnist
		Antonio Tomasio was born in Arequipa, Peru. He is a business consultant with a wide international trajectory. His areas of expertise are coaching, negotiation and tourism development. Currently, he divides his time between Peru, Spain and the Dominican Republic. He can be reached at pt.researchers@gmail.com

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.