Expertise
Latin America; U.S.-Mexico relations; United Nations, migration; international governance reform
- Language Fluency:
- Spanish
- French
Background
Current Positions
Chairman, Board of Trustees, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; Member, Inter American Dialogue; Governor, Center for International Governance Innovation, Canada; Advisory Board Member, Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute; Vice Chair, Board of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Sweden; Member, Pacific Council on International Policy; Eminent Ambassador of Mexico.
Past Positions
President, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; Ambassador-at-Large and Special Presidential Envoy for President Vicente Fox, Mexico; Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom; Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico; Ambassador of Mexico to Sweden; Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
Expert Awards
Grand Cross of the Polar Star (Sweden); Grand Cross of the Civil Merit Order (Spain); Order of Civil Merit (France)
Education
M.A., Economics, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton); B.A., Universidad de las Américas, Mexico City