The End of Nostalgia: Mexico Confronts the Challenges of Global Competition

About the Authors

Armando Chacón is a consultant in the design and evaluation of education programs and policies for governments and not-for-profit organizations and a partner at Newell & Co. (www.newell.mx). He is a columnist for El Economista and co-author with Pablo Peña of How to Change Stories: What Individuals , Firms, and Not-for-Profit Organizations Can Do for Education in Mexico (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012). He was the research director at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness and an economic adviser for several Mexican federal government agencies. Arturo Franco has worked with Cementos de Mexico (CEMEX) and the World Bank. Between 2008 and 2011, he was a Global Leadership fellow at the World Economic Forum, where he designed innovative programs for the annual Davos meeting as well as the forum’s annual meeting in Latin America . He later joined the Center for International Development at Harvard University as a resident fellow. Eduardo Guerrero is a partner at Lantía Consultores (www.lantiaconsultores .com), a public policy consulting firm based in Mexico City, where he works with policymakers from local and state governments throughout Mexico on security assessment. He has held senior positions at Mexico’s Federal Electoral Authority (IFE), the Federal Institute for Transparency and Information Access (IFAI), and the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL). He has published numerous articles in Nexos magazine (www.nexos.com.mx) and in 2011 published Security, Drugs and Violence in Mexico: A Survey for the 7th North American Forum, Washington, D.C. 193 About the Authors Diana Villiers Negroponte is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Advisory Council at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She practiced international trade law with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. She is the author of Seeking Peace in El Salvador: The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). She writes frequently for the Brookings Institution’s Latin America Initiative. Andrés Rozental has served as Mexico’s ambassador to the United Kingdom (1995–97), deputy foreign minister (1988–94), ambassador to Sweden (1983–88), and permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva (1982–83) and has assumed various responsibilities within Mexico ’s Foreign Ministry. He holds the lifetime rank of Eminent Ambassador of Mexico. He is president of Rozental & Asociados, which specializes in corporate strategies in Latin America. He is the author of five books on Mexican foreign policy and numerous articles on international affairs. He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a trustee of the Migration Policy Institute, and a senior policy adviser at Chatham House in London. Christopher Wilson is an associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he develops the institute’s research and programming on regional economic integration and U.S.-Mexico border affairs. He previously served as a Mexico analyst for the U.S. military and as a researcher for Robert Pastor, a professor of international relations and director of the Center for North American Studies at American University. In Mexico, he worked with the international trade consultancy Inteligencia Comercial en Negocios (IQOM). He is the author of Working Together: Economic Ties between the United States and Mexico (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2011) and has coauthored op-ed columns for the Wall Street Journal and Dallas Morning News. Duncan Wood became the director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in January 2013. Previously , he was a professor and director of the Program in International Relations at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He is also 194 About the Authors a senior associate at CSIS in Washington, D.C., and a researcher in the Centro de Derecho Económico Internacional at ITAM. From 2007 to 2009 he was the technical secretary of the Red Mexicana de Energía, a group of experts focused on energy policy in Mexico, and an evaluator for both the Fulbright–Garcia Robles Commission in Mexico and CONACT, Mexico’s science and technology council. He is the author of numerous articles on energy and banking. About the Authors 195 ...