Panelists
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Shere Abbott
Serves as Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President and Provost, Director of the Office of Sustainability Initiatives, and Senior Lecturer in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to The University of Texas at Austin, she served as Chief International Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington D.C. She received a master's degree in wildlife ecology and natural resource policy from Yale University.
Claudia Aburto
Obtained her master's degree in environmental and natural resource economics from the University College London (UCL), and is a candidate for a doctoral degree in economics at UCL. She teaches basic microeconomics, intermediate microeconomics, and environmental economics at ITAM. She also directs the Master's in Economics Program at ITAM.
Francisco Alba
Professor and Researcher at El Colegio de México. Previously he taught at Duke University. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad de San Luis Potosí and also a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He has completed graduate studies in demography at El Colegio de México, at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, and at The University of Texas at Austin. Among his research interests are international migration, population and development and economic integration. His current studies include immigration policies, commercial liberalization and NAFTA. He was awarded the National Award of Demography in 1991.
Ronald Angel
Received his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has been a member of the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin since 1991. He previously served on the faculty at Rutgers University from 1983 to 1990. Prior to serving as a faculty member at Rutgers, he had been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in the Rutgers-Princeton Program in Mental Health Research from 1981 to 1983. His research interests include medical sociology, social welfare, poverty, and minorities.
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James P. Barufaldi
Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education at The University of Texas at Austin and the Ruben E. Hinojosa Regents Professor in Education. He earned a doctoral degree in science education from the University of Maryland. His special areas of interests are curriculum design, instructional strategies, implementation, evaluation, and science teacher education. He is currently investigating the process of building successful collaborative strategies in the science education community.
Sabina Berman
Mexican author and playwright. She studied psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana and theater direction at the Centro de Artes Dramáticas, A.C. (CADAC) and at Center T. By 1990, Sabina Berman had already received the National Award for Dramatic Literature (awarded annually by the National Institute of Fine Arts) four times. As playwright she has produced several successful works.
Jonathan Brown
Professor in the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin. His research specializes in the study of Latin America's economy and labor history. He has also spent time researching the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions, Argentina, and Fidel Castro. He served as editor of the Latin American Research Journal (LARR) between 2001 and 2007. He is currently working on a two-volume textbook on Latin American history. He received his doctoral degree in history from The University of Texas at Austin in 1976.
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Guadalupe Carmona
Assistant Professor of math and science in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. She has served as evaluation and assessment advisor for the expansion phase of the EFIT-EMAT project and as Associate Director of the Informatics Department in the General Direction of Educational Materials and Methods (DGMME) in Mexico City. She received her doctoral degree in mathematics education from Purdue University.
Francisco Cervantes Pérez
Director of the Center for Open University and Distance Learning at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a former director of the Graduate Program in Information Technology at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He received his doctoral degree in computer and information sciences from the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst in 1985. Dr. Cervantes has published several research papers in international journals, books and conferences, and has served as advisor and evaluator for the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT). He has been a consultant to several governmental and business organizations.
Gary Chapman
Joined the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin in 1993, and directs the 21st Century Project, which sponsors public interest research and education programs on science and technology policy Chapman specializes in the social implications and trends of new developments in information technologies and telecommunications. In early 2000, Chapman was named one of the "25 Most Powerful Texans in High Tech" by Texas Monthly. He earned his B.A. from Occidental College and studied in Stanford University's political science Doctoral degree program.
Fernando Cortés
Born in Chile where he studied economics at the University of Chile. He received a doctoral degree in social sciences with a specialty in social anthropology at the Center for Studies of Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in 1997. He teaches courses on statistics, research methodology, and economic reform. He has numerous publications on issues of poverty, income, marginality, and migration.
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Elisa Dávalos López
Professor in the Faculty of Economics at UNAM, and a tenured Researcher in the Area of Integration Studies at CISAN. She specializes in the Canadian economy. Her current research focuses on economic relations of the European Union and in the NAFTA region. She received the ICCS and Canadian Embassy Faculty Research Award in 1998, the Canadian Academic Relations Division of External Affairs Fellowship, and the Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage Fellowship. Her recent publications include topics of international economic relations in Canada and Mexico. Dávalos López earned her doctoral degree in social sciences with a specialty in international relations from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco (UAM-X).
Rodolfo O De la Garza
Combines interests in political behavior and public policy. In political behavior he specializes in ethnic politics, with particular emphasis on Latino public opinion and electoral involvement. His primary interests in public policy include immigration and immigrant settlement and incorporation. He has edited, co-edited and co-authored numerous books, and has published in leading professional journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Latin American Research Review, Social Science Quarterly, and International Migration Review. Currently he is directing studies on immigrant incorporation, Latinos and U. S. foreign policy, and Latino voting patterns.
Ana María de la Rosa y Carpizo
Es Consultora para el Centro para el Fortalecimiento de Organizaciones Civiles A.C. en Chihuahua, donde fungió como Directora del 2005 al 2007. Tiene una maestría en desarrollo humano de la Universidad Iberoamericana, así como una maestría en finanzas, y una tercera en administración del ITESM Campus Chihuahua. Cursó su licenciatura en arquitectura en el ITESM Campus Monterrey. Su área de interés es mejorar las estructuras y desempeño de las organizaciones civiles sin fines de lucro a fin de incrementar la confianza del público en ellas.
Ignacio Díaz de la Serna
Researcher and writer. He obtained a doctoral degree in philosophy at UNAM, and pursued graduate studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is a member of the National System of Researchers and currently works full time in the Strategic Studies Area at UNAM's Center for Research on North America (CISAN). He is currently a Professor in the master's and doctoral programs of the Department of Philosophy at UNAM, where he teaches aesthetics, culture and religion. He has taught in undergraduate and graduate programs at six Mexican national universities.
Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in Mexican literature and culture, border studies, Latin American gender and queer studies, and cultural studies, specifically in film, media and the arts. Dominguez Ruvalcaba received his doctoral degree in Spanish literature from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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Michelle Foss
Serves as the Chief Energy Economist and head of the Center for Energy Economics (CEE) of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin (in Houston). In this capacity, she conducts research; advises U.S. and international energy companies; publishes, speaks widely on energy issues; and provides public commentary and testimony to governments. In 2003, she was the President of the International Association for Energy Economics. Dr. Foss is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of Women's Energy Network. She received her doctoral degree in political science from the University of Houston.
Gary Freeman
Chair of the Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in the politics of immigration, comparative social policy, and politics in Western democracies, especially France, Britain, Australia, Canada, and the United States. His current research topic relates to the impact of public opinion on member state preferences for harmonized immigration and asylum policies in the European Union, the modeling of immigration politics in comparative contexts, and the perspectives of political scientists on international migration. As Director of the Public Policy Clinic in the Department, he is heading up a number of collaborative research projects on the impact of U.S. welfare reform on immigrants, and the naturalization practices of legal immigrants in Texas.
Peter Frumkin
Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School. Prior to coming to the LBJ School in 2005, he was an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was affiliated with the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Frumkin was a Senior Fellow of the New America Foundation. He also worked as a foundation program officer, a nonprofit manager, and program evaluator for both nonprofit and public agencies. He has lectured on philanthropy at universities throughout the country and served as a consultant to foundations and individual donors on strategy and evaluation. He received his doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1997.
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Carlos Gabuardi
Professor of law at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey Campus). Professor Gabuardi holds a master's degree in law, with distinction, from the School of Law at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a doctoral degree in law from the same university. In addition to practicing law, Professor Gabuardi is currently the Director of the Chair-in-Law Eduardo A. Elizondo, and currently teaches courses on international business transactions, private international law and comparative law. Doctor Gabuardi has published several articles in law reviews and journals in Mexico and abroad.
Monica Gambril
Researcher at the Center for Research on North America at UNAM, where she also coordinates the Area of Integration Studies. She received her doctoral degree in sociology from El Colegio de Mexico. Doctor Gambrill specializes in U.S.-Mexico relations. Her publications focus on NAFTA and integration processes in the Americas. She teaches at several UNAM faculties, and in the United States via distance courses online. She teaches the following subjects: U.S. history, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. - Mexico relations, border studies, international political economy, methodology of the social sciences, and general courses in sociology. Dr. Gambrill is also active directing theses at the doctoral level.
Brígida García Guzmán
Sociologist with a doctoral degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her research interests focus on labor markets. Recently, she has focused on the study of indicators to measure the living conditions of families in Mexico. She teaches at El Colegio de Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and in various specialized centers that focus on issues related to family and gender - her latest publications have specifically dealt with these themes.
William Glade
Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at The University of Texas at Austin where he taught until 2007. He previously taught at the universities of Wisconsin and Maryland. He served as Interim Secretary of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin for about 15 years and later he served as Director of the Mexican Center at the same university. Doctor Glade was president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). His research and teaching have included topics related to the economic development of Latin America, and more recently the study of trade, and cultural and political production in the context of NAFTA.
Guadalupe González
Professor and Researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). Her research topics include North American foreign policy toward Latin America, U.S.-Mexico relations, Latin American comparative foreign policy, drug trafficking and national security. She earned her doctoral degree in political science at the University of California - San Diego.
Kenneth Greene
Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses on comparative politics of Mexico and Latin America, research methodology, political parties, and voting behavior. He specializes in political parties and elections with an emphasis on the formation of opposition parties in dominant party regimes. Dr. Greene has published extensively on topics of voting behavior, social movements, authoritarian regimes, and democratization processes in Latin America. He holds a doctoral degree in political science from the University of California-Berkeley.
Robert L. Grenier
Managing Director at Kroll Associates, a firm that provides investigations, financial advisory and intelligence services. Grenier has exceptional experience in global intelligence, security, foreign affairs, and strategic and covert operations. He joined the CIA in January 1979 as a Career Trainee and was assigned to the Near East and South Asia Division. He served extensively in Pakistan before and following the attacks of 9/11, and for two years was the CIA's representative to the White House on Iraq. His most recent position was Director of the Counter Terrorism Center (CTC), where he led the CIA's involvement in the Global War on Terror. He has a graduate degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
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Patricia I. Hansen
Professor at The University of Texas School of Law since 1994. She currently holds the J. Waddy Bullion Professorship in Law and is Director of the dual-degree program in Law and Latin American Studies. A prominent scholar in the area of international economic law, Professor Hansen has published numerous articles on the interplay between international economic law and environmental and consumer protection, and on dispute settlement in regional trade agreements. She teaches courses on international commerce, NAFTA, federal civil procedures, and legal and political reform in Latin America. She has also done significant work on projects aimed at strengthening the rule of law in Latin America, and is a member of the American Law Institute and the Board of Directors of the US-Mexico Bar Association. She holds a doctoral degree in law from Yale University, and a master's degree from Princeton University.
Ana Lucía Hill
Born in Sonora, Mexico, she pursued a master's degree in political management at the George Washington University, and a bachelor's degree in social sciences at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She has more than 10 years of experience as political consultant, and was elected Rising Star of Politics 2002 by the renowned American magazine Campaigns & Elections. She was the first, and up until now, the only Latin American woman to be honored with such distinction. In june of 2003, Paul E. Patton, Governor of the State of Kentucky awarded her the highest distinction in the State, the Honorary Kentucky Colonel, for her contributions to the community. This award recognizes the work of leaders, men and women from all over the world, to help others. Ana Lucía is a doctoral candidate in crisis and risk management program at the George Washington University.
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Claire Joysmith
Tenured Researcher in the area of Integration Studies at CISAN. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the UNAM School of Philosophy and Literature, and for the last eight years has given a course-workshop on film and literature at the Mexico City site of Earlham College of Richmond, Indiana. Claire Joysmith received her master's in English language and literature from Queen Mary's College of London University. She is currently the advisor for two doctoral, two master's and one bachelor's theses at the UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters. Her current research deals with contemporary women's cultural-literary manifestations in U.S. ethnic groups. She has authored several publications on the issue of culture (specifically literary culture) in the U.S. -Mexico border.
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Sandra Kuntz
Professor at the Center for Historical Studies at El Colegio de Mexico. She obtained a doctoral degree in history from that institution in 1993. Her research has analyzed the commercial history of Mexico including, business, trade, and Mexican commercial policy. Her major publications have analyzed the economic importance of railways and foreign trade in Mexico between 1870 and 1929. Currently, she is a Visiting Professor at the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Michael Layton
Part-time Professor and the Director of the Project on Philanthropy and Civil Society of the Academic Department of International Studies at the Instituto Técnico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He earned his doctoral degree in political science from Duke University. He is interested in topics related to democratization, philanthropy and donor institutions, political parties, campaigns and elections, U.S. history and politics, and civil society. He has worked as a Researcher and Visiting Professor at Yale University, and as an Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University.
Peter Lewis
Executive Secretary of the Pacific Asian Center and a Researcher affiliated with the Institute for International Studies, both at the University of Chile.
James Lindsay
Inaugural Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs and Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Dr. Lindsay was Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations. Lindsay is a leading authority on domestic influences on U.S. foreign policy and has written or edited more than a dozen books on international relations. He has a doctoral degree from Yale University.
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John McKiernan Gonzalez
Assistant Professor in the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his doctoral degree in history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2002. His research interests include Latino history, social and cultural history of medicine, borderlands history, and ethnic studies. His most recent work focuses on topics of communal health along the U.S. -Mexico border.
Judith Mariscal
Professor in the Department of Public Administration and the Director of the Telecommunications Program at CIDE. She has extensive research experience in information and communications technologies focusing on public policy and regulatory issues. She holds a doctoral degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, and has authored numerous articles on telecommunications policy and regulation.
Graciela Martínez-Zalce
Tenured Researcher in the Area of Globalization Studies at CISAN. She received her doctorate in modern literature from the Iberoamericana University and has been a Fellow of the Mexican Center of Writers, of the Seminary of Cultural Studies of FONCA (National Fund for Culture and the Arts). Her current research compares American and Canadian cinema and literature, and she has received the Carlos Echánove Essay Prize and the Hewlett Foundation Award in those same genres.
Lorenzo Meyer
Distinguished historian and scholar, who also ventures into journalism. He holds a doctoral degree in international relations from El Colegio de Mexico, and undertook postgraduate studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. As a journalist, he writes columns in the dailies Reforma and La Jornada and appears in the TV program Primer Plano. He is currently a Professor and a Researcher at El Colegio de Mexico where he teaches history of international relations in Mexico and the history of independent Mexico. He has countless articles and books on various aspects of the history of Mexico.
Rodrigo Mier González
Professor in the Department of Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM). He specializes in the study of hegemony and spectral speeches, the cultural establishment of the modern state in Mexico in the nineteenth century, and more generally, in concepts related to representation, metaphor and figurative language. He obtained his doctoral degree in comparative literature at the State University of New York in 2005.
Carlos Monsiváis
Mexican author and journalist. From a very early age Carlos Monsiváis worked in the most important newspapers and cultural magazines in the country. He studied economics, philosophy and literature at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Much of his work has been published in major newspapers in Mexico, including La Jornada, the magazines Proceso, El Universal, Siempre!, Nexos, Letras Libres, and Este Pais. He has also served as editor for various media companies such as Televisa. He is one of the most renowned writers in Mexico. Monsiváis is very interested in promoting the rights of minorities, public education and teaching reading.
José Morandé Lavín
Director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile. He is a Professor of international relations, and his research focuses on inter-American relations, and Chilean and U.S. foreign policy. He also serves as Professor at the Universidad Gabriela Mistral, and at the Academy of Political Studies and Strategies of the Chilean Minister of Defense (ANEPE). He earned his doctoral degree in international studies from the University of Denver.
Elizabeth Mueller
Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Doctoral degree and masters' degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on state and local affordable housing policy and politics in Texas. She is active in state and local affordable housing policy and advocacy, producing research aimed at advancing public discussion of priorities and strategies.
Carlos Muñoz Piña
General Director of Environmental Politics and Economy at the National Institute of Ecology of the Federal Ministry of the Environment and Natural Reources (SEMARNAT) since 2001. He has also acted as a consultant on subjects of environmental evaluation for diverse international agencies. He has taught at the University of California-Berkeley, the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores of Monterrey, the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo of México, and El Colegio de México. Muñoz Piña has published extensively on the subject of the environment in Mexico. He obtained his doctoral degree in agricultural economy and natural resources at the University of California-Berkeley in 2001.
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Silvia Núñez
Researcher at the Center for Research on North America - UNAM, where she also holds the position of Academic Secretary. A member of the Global Studies Area at CISAN, Nú˜ez teaches US and Canadian Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences at UNAM. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Georgetown University in the USA among other international institutions. Her field of expertise is the social structure and social problems in North America.
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Orlandina de Oliveira
Professor and Researcher at the center of Sociologic Studies (CES) at El Colegio de Mexico since 1970. She was born in Brazil where she earned her bachelor's in sociology. She obtained her doctoral degree in sociology at The University of Texas at Austin in 1975. Among her research interests are studies of labor market, family, gender, migration, and social inequity.
José Luis Orozco Alcántar
Professor affiliated to UNAM's International Relations Center in the field of international policy. He currently teaches courses on United States politics and government at the Political and Social Sciences Faculty of UNAM. He has a master's in political science from the University of Texas and a doctoral degree in political science from UNAM. He has taught several courses in the United States and Canada on political thought and on Mexico-U.S. relations. He is an author, co-author and editor of books on a variety of political topics published in Mexico, Spain and Italy. He received the 2002 National University Award for research in the social sciences.
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Eduardo Pérez Motta
President of the Mexican Federal Commission on Competition since August of 2004. Before occupying this position, he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mexico before the World Trade Organization. In 1998, he was appointed to the Representation Office of the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industrial Development (SECOFI) in Brussels, where he coordinated the Mexican team during negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and the European Union. He participated in the negotiations committee for the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in the area of tariffs, customs, and rules of origin. He received his doctoral degree in economics at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA).
Ernesto Piedras
General Director of Competitive Inteligence Unit, S.C. Besides working in telecommunications, Piedra has held diverse positions in public administration, in the treasury office, public credit office, budget and planning office, Federal Commission of Electricity, and Presidency of the Republic. At ITAM, he has served as Professor of economics since 1997, and has also taught graduate courses in public policy since 2002. He completed his doctorate studies at the London School of Economics.
Leandro Piquet Carneiro
Visiting Scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Sao Paulo. He specializes in quantitative studies relating to violence and crime. He earned his doctorate in political science at the Rio de Janeiro Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IUPERJ). Piquet Carneiro is an Associate Researcher at the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute and at the Center for Public Policy Studies.
Joe Potter
Professor of sociology in the Population Research Center (PRC) at The University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the PRC Graduate Training Director. Doctor Potter specializes in reproductive health, population and development, and demographic estimation. He has taught at Harvard University and at El Colegio de México. Dr. Potter was awarded a doctoral degree in economics from Princeton and a master's in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs.
Jean François Prud'homme
General Academic Coordinator at El Colegio de Mexico and a Professor affiliated to the Center for International Studies at the same university. Dr. Prud'homme obtained a doctoral degree in political science at York University in Toronto. His specialization includes comparative policy, political theory, citizenship and political representation, political parties and institutions in Mexico and Latin America. His most recent research analyzes the opposition political parties and the articulation of interests in Mexico
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Paul E. Resta
Director of the Learning Technology Center at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ruth Knight Millikan Centennial Professorship in Instructional Technology. Dr. Resta currently teaches advanced graduate courses in instructional technology. His current work focuses on the research and development of web-based learning environments, computer-supported collaborative learning strategies and tools, and online teacher professional development. Dr. Resta has been an international leader in technology and teacher development. He served as President of the International Council of Computers in Education and is the Founding President of the International Society for Technology in Education. He has published numerous articles and books on educational technology.
Raymundo Riva Palacio
Recognized journalist and analyst, Raymundo Riva Palacio has won two national journalism awards. During his prolific career, he has written for numerous newspapers in Mexico, Spain, Canada, and the United States. He is currently editorial director of El Gráfico, El M, and Coordinator of International Affairs at El Universal.
Bryan Roberts
Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, is a Professor of Sociology and the C.B. Smith Chair of U.S.-Mexico Relations at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on development, modernization, urban sociology, and sociology of work, particularly in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. As Principal Investigator, he has led diverse international research networks that promote comparative research in Latin America on topics of citizenship, equity, urban and rural segregation. He has had numerous articles and papers published, most recently on topics of urban demography and Latin American development. He received his doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1964.
Néstor Rodríguez
Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of Houston. His research interests include international migration, political sociology, and effects of U.S. immigration policies on migrant populations. He has published papers on patterns of migrant deaths at the U.S-Mexico border.
José Romero
Professor at the Center for Economic Studies at El Colegio de Mexico. He teaches international economics and economic growth. Among his research topics are the theories of trade and international finance, economic history, and economic growth in Mexico. His most recent publications have addressed issues of economic liberalization, trade liberalization, agricultural development in the context of NAFTA, and economic development in Latin America. He received a doctoral degree in economics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1988.
Ana María de la Rosa y Carpizo
Consultant at the Center for the Strengthening of Civil Organizations in Chihuahua, where she was the Director from 2005-2007. She has three masters' degrees; one in human development from the Universidad Iberoamericana; one in finance; and a third in administration, both from the ITESM Campus Chihuahua. Her undergraduate degree is in architecture from ITESM Campus Monterrey. Her current area of interest deals with the improvement of the structures and management of non-profit organizations in order to enhance their impact and create greater public confidence.
Pablo Ruiz Nápoles
He is a Professor in the Faculty of Economics at UNAM. Received his master's and doctoral degrees from the New School for Social Research in New York. He has held several administrative positions in academia. During a recent sabbatical, he acted as high functionary of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in its Mexico office. His research specializes in the impact that trade liberalization has had on the economic growth of Mexico and the rest of Latin America. He has published on issues of free trade and labor. In addition to teaching courses on international economic relations, international commerce, exchange-rate policy, balance of payments and tariff schemes, he has served as the director of multiple theses at different institutions in Mexico.
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Consuelo Sáizar
She is the head of the Fondo de Cultura Economica, one of the major and most important Spanish-language publishing houses in the world, with subsidiaries in nine countries. She has been named one of the Top 300 Mexican Leaders by the magazine Líderes Mexicanos (México) for four consecutive years. In 2003, she was honored with the Condecoración de la Órden de Mérito Civil en Grado de Cruz Oficial by the Government and Kingdom of Spain. Also in 2005 she was named The Woman of the year in the cultural industry by the magazine Mujer Ejecutiva (México). Ms. Sáizar graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana, where she majored in communication studies. She also studied political science and public administration, accounting and finance at this institution. During her tenure as General Director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica, which began in 2002, the annual production of books has increased significantly.
Ana María Salazar
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and widely recognized as an expert of international law and national security in Latin America. She holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. Between June 1998 and January 2001, Ms. Salazar served at the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy and Support. As a result of her efforts at the Pentagon, Ms. Salazar was recognized by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanic Americans in the United States. Prior to joining the Pentagon, Ms. Salazar served at the White House as Policy Advisor for President Clinton's Special Envoy for the Americas in 1998. In that capacity, she formulated and coordinated policies designed to advance the President's agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in areas such as justice and security, law enforcement, education, human rights, democracy and trade. Between 1995 and 1997, Salazar joined the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the Department of State. In Colombia she acted as Legal Attaché in the United States Embassy in Bogotá.
Francisco Xavier Salazar Diez de Sollano
President of the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). He has twice been a member of the Mexican Federal Congress representing his home state, San Luis Potosí, from 1997 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2005. While a member of Congress, he became a member of the Energy Commission, the Secretary of the Environmental Commission, and a member of the Public Budget, Economic Development, and Water Resources Commissions. He has been a Researcher and Professor at the University of San Luis Potosí, teaching and publishing in the field of public finance. Francisco Salazar holds a chemical engineering degree from the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí and has a master's in public finance and global market economics from the London School of Economics.
Viviana Salinas Ulloa
A Chilean sociologist, and currently is in her fourth year of a doctoral program in sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in low-fertility scenarios in Latin America and their implications on family and culture. She is also interested in inequalities emerging from labor markets in Latin America. Her goal is to generate information that can be used by policy makers in order to improve the life conditions not only of poor people, but also of people who have surpassed poverty but have a vulnerable, unstable social insertion.
Olga Sánchez Cordero
Supreme Court Justice since 1995. She studied law at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). She is Doctor Honoris Causa by the Autonomous University of Morelos and the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon. Justice Sanchez Cordero is the ninth woman to hold a chair on the Supreme Court and the first female notary public in Mexico City. She has been highlighted as one of the most important lawyers and jurists of Mexico. He has also been a Professor at UNAM and various universities in the country.
Jorge Sánchez Cordero
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Unidroit. Dr. Sánchez Cordero has a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and doctorate from the University Panthéon-Assas (magna cum laudae). He is a member of the American Law Institute and member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He is also a member of the Canadian Uniform Law Conference and the Committee on External Advisors in Private International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. Sanchez Cordero is the author of several books in French and English and published articles in international legal magazines.
Jorge A. Schiavon
Professor and Researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), where he also serves as Director of the Division of International Studies. He has worked on various topics related to international policy including, among others, Mexican foreign policy, Latin American hemispheric relations, political institutions, and economic reform. He pursued graduate studies in the Political Science and International Relations Doctoral Program at the University of California-San Diego.
Patricio Solís
A faculty member at the Center for Sociological Studies (CES) at El Colegio de México since 2004 and currently serves as Academic Coordinator for the doctoral program in sociology. Previously, he was Coordinator of Research and of the Master's Program in Population Studies for FLACSO, Mexico. He received his doctoral degree in sociology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2002. His research interests are social inequality, social stratification, labor, family, and the life course, topics in which he has published extensively.
Anne Staples
Professor of Mexican history at El Colegio de Mexico, where has had an affiliation at the Center for Historical Studies since 1976. From 1984 to the present, she has also served as Professor of history at UNAM. Professor Ana Staples was awarded her doctorate in history of Mexico by El Colegio de México in 1970. Her research interests include mining, the Church, everyday life in nineteenth-century Mexico, and social and cultural history during the Virreinato. Her most recent publications are based on topics related to higher education, mining resources, the Church, and the Federal Republic of Mexico.
Miguel Székely Pardo
Under Secretary for Secondary Education at the Federal Ministry of Public Education in Mexico. He was born in Mexico City, and graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) where he obtained a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in public policy. He then pursued a master's degree in economic development and completed a doctoral degree in economics, both from Oxford University in England. He has been a Professor at ITAM and a Professor and Researcher at the Center for Economic Studies at El Colegio de México. He has authored 60 academic publications including books, articles in specialized journals, and chapters in various publications that show his interest and thorough understanding of poverty, inequality, and social exclusion in Mexico and in Latin America. Doctor Székely has received many awards including the EXITAM Award for Professional Merit, awarded by ITAM; the INNOVA Award by the President of Mexico; two annual awards to the best team at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); and the Nancy Ruggles Memorial Award, granted by the International Association for the Research on Income and Wealth. He has been a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers, and an advisor and collaborator to the IDB, the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He has also been Vice President of the Territorial Development Policy Committee at the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). Before becoming Under Secretary for Secondary Education at the Federal Ministry of Public Education, he was Chief of the Unit of Regional Development for the Office of the President of Mexico, Executive Secretary for the Inter Ministerial Commission for Social Development, and Under Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Federal Ministry of Social Development of Mexico.
Francisco Székely
Joint Professor of Sustainable Development and Responsible Leadership at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, Germany since 2004. Before that, he held the position of Under Secretary of Environmental Planning and Policy at the Federal Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico. His professional interests and research cover topics related to sustainable development, climate change, corporations and social responsibility, and environmental management. Throughout his publications he has covered issues pertaining to the environment and public policy, energy, and sustainable development in Latin America. He obtained his doctoral degree. in environmental sciences at Washington University in St. Louis in 1974.
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Ramón Talavera
Coordinator of the Language Learners Program at the Center for Hispanic Achievement (LUCHA) of The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to this appointment, Ramon served as Coordinator for the Institute of Mexicans Abroad at the Consulate of Mexico in Laredo, Texas. In this position, Ramon's duties involved planning, organization and direction of educational, cultural, sports and health programs targeted at the Mexican-American communities in the United States. Ramón has more than ten years of experience working for media companies, serving as reporter, scriptwriter, and developing English-as-a-Second-Language television programs.
Enrique Tamés Muñoz
Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, México City Campus. He is a philosopher, with a master's degree and doctoral degree in education. Most of his research has been in the fields of philosophy of art, aesthetics, education for the arts and Latin American art. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Getty Institute in California.
Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida
Researcher affiliated with the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute, and a Professor at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) where she teaches international relations for the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in the Department of Political Science. She also serves as Associate Director of the Institute of International Relations at USP. She earned her doctorate in political science at USP, and completed a post doctorate program at the University of California-Berkeley.
Sean Theriault
Associate Professor of American politics in the Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin. His particular interests are in the U.S. Congress, American Political Development, and Political History. He received his doctoral degree in political science from Stanford University. He published the book The Power of the People: Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter Retribution, and numerous articles on subjects ranging from presidential rhetoric to congressional careers and the Louisiana Purchase to the Pendleton Act of 1883. His current research focuses on party polarization in the modern Congress.
Rebecca Torres
Visiting Researcher in the Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program of The University of Texas at Austin and a Professor in the Department of Human Geography at East Carolina University. She has worked in diverse topics related to rural development and reduction of poverty in Latin America and in the Southern United States. Her research includes migration, agricultural change, and touristic development in developing countries in the context of globalization. She is currently conducting a comprehensive research, education, and community support project focused on rural transformation and Latino migration in the Southern United States.
Rodolfo Tuirán Gutiérrez
Under Secretary for Higher Education at the Federal Ministry of Public Education in Mexico. He is an economist, demographer, and sociologist, who obtained a doctoral degree in sociology from The University of Texas at Austin. He acted as Under Secretary for Urban Development at the Federal Ministry of Social Development from April 2002 to January 2006; and General Secretary of the National Population Council from June 1997 to March 2002. He served as President of the Mexican Demography Society from 1996 to 1998, and Professor-Researcher of El Colegio de Mexico from 1982 to 1996. Dr. Tuirán is author, editor, or coordinator of 25 books and has published more than 170 articles on several subjects of a socio-demographic nature. He received the National Demography Award in 1994.
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Guadalupe Vadillo
Academic Secretary of the Distance Bachillerato Program at UNAM-B@UNAM, where she coordinates the Science and Mathematics Division. She is a psychologist and has completed a doctoral program in education from La Salle University. She has been Coordinator of Psychology, and Director of Continuing Education at the University of the Americas. In this position, she coordinated graduate programs, created the master's degrees in higher education and special education, and taught a graduate courses in the fields of outstanding intelligence, conflict resolution and creativity. She directed the Language Center at the University of the Americas for twelve years. Vadillo has co-authored twelve books in the fields of education and psychology.
José Luis Valdés Ugalde
Director of the Center for Research on North America at UNAM since September of 2001. His areas of specialty include political theory, theory of international relations, globalization, integration and security, history and public policy of the United States, as well as North American studies. He has contributed to more than 60 publications. He is a member of the Technical Council of Humanities and the Academic Council of the Social Sciences (CAACS), the Director's Council of the U.S.-Mexico Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (COMEXUS), as well as a member of five doctoral advising committees. He received his doctorate in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Angela Valenzuela
Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of the Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP), is the Associate Vice President for School Partnerships. TCEP is a university-wide research and policy center that advances equity and excellence in public elementary, secondary and higher education. It also connects the university's intellectual resources to educational issues facing the state. A Stanford University graduate, her previous teaching positions were in sociology at Rice University in Houston,Texas. Her research and teaching interests are the sociology of education, race and ethnicity in schools, urban education reform, educational policy, and immigrant youth in schools.
Josefina Vázquez Mota
Federal Minister for Public Education in Mexico. She is an economist, a businesswoman and a Mexican politician. She obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad Iberoamericana, and later she completed graduate training at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE). As a member of the National Action Party (PAN) she was elected to the congress where she held the position of Coordinator of Economic Policy in 2000. She served as a congresswoman until her appointment as Minister of Social Development. She moved on to become the coordinator of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa's campaign for the 2006 presidential elections. After her candidate won the presidential bid, she was appointed as the federal minister of education starting December 1, 2006. In the course of her career, she has given lectures on economics, politics, social problems, and business. As a journalist, she wrote columns on economic issues in the dailies Novedades, El Financiero y El Economista.
Josefina Zoraida Vázquez
Professor at the Center for Historical Studies at the Colegio de Mexico. She obtained a doctoral degree in history at UNAM in 1968. Her areas of research include social and political history of Mexico in the nineteenth century, diplomatic history of Mexico in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the history of the United States. Her most recent publications are based on studies on the establishment of federalism in Mexico, the Mexican treaties, sovereignty and territory, and the history of foreign relations in Mexico.
Jesús Velasco Grajales
Professor in the Division of International Studies at CIDE. He currently serves as the Antonio Madero / Mexico Foundation Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and has been a Visiting Professor at the Weatherhead Center (University of Harvard). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Wilson Center. He is a member of the editorial committee of the American Journal of History, Turkish Journal on American Studies and Istor. He is the author of publications that deal with the influence of neoconservatism in American foreign policy. He received his doctoral degree in political science with a focus on American politics at The University of Texas at Austin.
Gustavo Verduzco
Professor at the Center for Sociological Studies (CES) at El Colegio de México, and a former Chair of the Center from 2000 to 2004. He has participated in many international research teams, including the Bi-national Study on Migration between Mexico and the United States. He has published extensively in prestigious journals and some of his latest publications analyze the role of non-profit organizations in Mexico. Dr. Verduzco holds a doctoral degree in sociology from The University of Texas at Austin.
Andrés Villarreal
Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Villarreal received his doctoral degree in sociology from The University of Chicago in 2002. He specializes in Latin American and border demography. His publications have focused on social issues such as crime and urbanization in Mexico, determinants of homicide in Mexican municipalities, the impact of poverty and inequality, domestic violence, and changes in family structure.
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Kenton Wilkinson
Managing Professor of Hispanic and International Communication, and a member of the Faculty of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University. His interests in international communications include the cultural context of the communication industries in a free trade environment, and the linguistic markets of communication. He specializes in American Spanish-language media and its connection with Latin American media-specifically Mexican. Wilkinson was a Professor of the Department of Communication at ITESM, Campus Monterrey from 1994 to 1996.
Jeffrey A. Weldon
Chair of the political science department at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Political Science. He has been a Professor at ITAM since 1994. During the 2003-2004 academic year, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is a Founding Member of the Mexican Parliamentary Studies Association (AMEP), and is currently its Academic Secretary. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Washington, and an master's degree in the same discipline from UCSD. His current research deals with party discipline and coalitions in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies.
Duncan Wood
Director of the Bachelor's Program in International Relations at ITAM since 1996. He teaches classes on political economy, economic development, theory of international relations, political economy of financial crisis, and international finances. His research interests include the political economy of Canada and Great Britain. He has published extensively on foreign policy and international finance issues. He obtained a doctoral degree in political science from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.
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Emilio Zamora
Professor in the Department of History and is afiliated with the Center for Mexican-American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Zamora specializes in Mexican-American history and U.S. working-class history during the last half of the nineteenth century and through the twentieth century. His other interests include the relationships between Mexicans across the international border, border and immigration studies, and Latinos in the United States. Dr. Zamora is currently working on a book about Mexican-Americans in the 1940's. He received his doctoral degree from The University of Texas's Department of History in 1983.
Stephen Zamora
Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, was recently named a recipient of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor given by the Mexican government to a foreign citizen. He has been involved in multiple programs designed to increase understanding between U.S. and Mexican lawyers, judges, and law students. Professor Zamora has served as Director of the Mexican Legal Studies Program at the University of Houston. He has also developed scholarship programs for Mexican lawyers to study in the United States. Zamora has many publications devoted to the Mexican legal system and to U.S.-Mexican relations. He helped to create the North American Consortium on Legal Education (NACLE).