The NAFTA Promise and the North American Reality:
The Gap and How to Narrow It
October 31 – November 1, 2013
Conference Participants
Sergio Alcocer
Summary and Conclusions Panel
Sergio M. Alcocer graduated as a civil engineer from the National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM) and obtained a PhD in the same field from the
University of Texas at Austin. He serves as Undersecretary for North America in
Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Relations since January 1, 2013. In his country’s
public sector he has previously served as Undersecretary for Energy Planning
and Technological Development at the Secretariat of Energy, and Research
Director at the National Center for Disaster Prevention of the Secretariat of
Government. At UNAM, he has been Secretary General (Provost), Coordinator
for Innovation and Development, and Director of the Institute of Engineering. He
has been a member of the National System of Researchers since 1994. He is
Vice-president of Mexico’s Academy of Engineering, and member of the Mexican
Academy of Sciences and numerous technical committees.
Miguel Basáñez
Lunch: CNAS survey presentation
Miguel E. Basáñez is a Professor of Values, Cultures and Development and
Director of Special Research and Educational Projects at the Fletcher School
of Tufts University. He helped introduce the use of opinion polling to Mexican
elections, serving as pollster of the President of Mexico, General Attorney of
the State of Mexico and the Chief of Staff for the Secretary of Energy (19801988). Basáñez was President of the World Association for Public Opinion
Research (WAPOR) (1999-2000) and CEO of Market & Opinion Research
International (MORI) de Mexico (1988-1996), MORI International (1996-2000)
and Global Quality Research Corporation (2000-2008). He was a Fulbright
Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and received his Ph.D. and M.
Phil. in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics. He is the
author and/or editor or twelve books including, The Struggle for Hegemony in
México; 20 Years of Crisis in México; North American Trajectory (with R.
Inglehart); Human Values and Beliefs (with R. Inglehart); Asiabarometer (with
Takashi Inoguchi).
Walter M. Bastian
Panel 1: Competitiveness in a World of Three Regions
As Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Bastian is responsible for
developing programs, policies and strategies designed to strengthen the United
States' commercial position in the Western Hemisphere.
Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Bastian headed the Office of Latin America
and the Caribbean and established and directed the Latin America/Caribbean
Business Development Center. The Center was responsible for transforming the
Caribbean Basin Initiative, the Andean Trade Preference Act and the Enterprise
for the Americas Initiative into business opportunities for U.S. firms. Before
joining the Department, Mr. Bastian worked in the corporate trust department of a
Washington bank and served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.
Mr. Bastian graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., with a
B.S. in Foreign Service and received an M.A. from Creighton University in
Nebraska. Mr. Bastian has received numerous awards for his work, including the
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Department's Silver Medal for his work in designing economic reconstruction
programs following hurricanes in Central America and the Caribbean. More
recently, Mr. Bastian received the Presidential Rank Award, which recognizes his
exceptional service to the American people over an extended period of time and
his relentless commitment to excellence in public service. This award is the most
prestigious recognition afforded to career professionals
Alan Bersin
Panel 2: Shared Responsibility and Institutional Collaboration for Security
Issues and Judicial Reform
Alan Bersin commenced service as Assistant Secretary of International Affairs
and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the Department of Homeland Security on
January 3, 2012. In that capacity, he oversees the Department's international
engagement and serves as the principal advisor to Secretary Janet Napolitano
on all international affairs. Previously, Bersin served as Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection where he oversaw the operations of CBP's
57,000-employee work force and managed an operating budget of more than
$11 billion geared to protecting the nation's borders from all threats while
expediting lawful trade and travel. Previously, Mr. Bersin served as California's
Secretary of Education in the Administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Gov. Schwarzenegger also appointed Mr. Bersin to the State Board of
Education, where he served until 2009 as a member confirmed by the California
State Senate. He received his J.D. degree from the Yale Law School and his
A.B. in Government from Harvard University (magna cum laude).
Jorge Castañeda
Lunch: Opening Presentation- Immigration-- the Social transformation
of North America/North American Values and Attitudes
Jorge Castañeda was Foreign Minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003. He is a
renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and prolific writer. He has more
than 15 books published in the United States and elsewhere. Castañeda is a
regular columnist for the Mexican daily Reforma, the Spanish daily El País and
TIME Magazine, and contributor to Univision, and Televisa. Since 1997 he is
Global Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies
at New York University.
William Crosbie
Summary and Conclusions Panel
William Crosbie served sequentially between 1987 and 1993 in the capacities of
policy adviser, executive assistant and chief of staff to ministers with the
portfolios of, respectively, Transport, International Trade, and finally Fisheries
and Oceans and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. In 1993, he joined
the Department of External Affairs and International Trade and served in a
management capacity in various divisions responsible for the formulation and
advocacy of Canadian trade policy, the negotiation of new trade agreements and
the defence of Canadian policies before international tribunals. From 2000 to
2004, he served as minister-counsellor of economic and trade policy at the
Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C., and from September 2004 until
October 2007 he continued work on North American issues as director general,
North America. In the fall of 2007, he was appointed assistant deputy minister for
the new Consular Services and Emergency Management Branch. He holds a BA
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in Political Science and History from Memorial University from Dalhousie
University.
Thomas d’Aquino
Panel 1: Competitiveness in a World of Three Regions
Thomas d’Aquino is Chairman of Thomas d’Aquino Capital, Canada Co-Chair of
the North American Forum, and former Chief Executive of the Canadian Council
of Chief Executives (1981-2009). Mr. d’Aquino serves on the Board of Directors
of CGI Group Inc. where he is Lead Director, and of Coril Holdings Ltd. He also
is Chairman of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation. He is Distinguished
Visiting Professor at Carleton University’s School of International Affairs and
Honorary Professor at Western University’s Ivey School of Business. Mr.
d’Aquino currently serves as Chair of the B20 Canada Committee and is CoChair of the Australia-Canada Economic Leadership Forum. In 2012, he cochaired the Canada Strategy for Emerging Markets project under the auspices of
the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. From 1981 to 2009, Mr.
d’Aquino was Chief Executive of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives,
composed of the heads of 150 of Canada’s leading enterprises and
entrepreneurs. He was one of the private sector architects of the Canada-United
States and North American free trade initiatives, organized and co-chaired the
first APEC CEO Summit held in Vancouver in 1997, and led the first Canadian
CEO Missions to China and India. Earlier in his career, he served as Special
Assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada. He is the co-author of Northern Edge:
How Canadians Can Triumph in the Global Economy. Mr. d’Aquino is the
recipient of numerous national and international honors including the Queen
Elizabeth II Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals and the Águila Azteca
conferred on him by President Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico.
Karen DeYoung
Panel 2: Shared Responsibility and Institutional Collaboration for Security
Issues and Judicial Reform
Karen DeYoung author of Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, is an associate editor
at The Washington Post. She currently writes about terrorism issues for the
National and Foreign Desks. From September 2001 until the summer of 2003,
she covered U.S. foreign policy for the paper, writing among other things about
the beginning of the counterterrorism struggle and the lead-up to the Iraq war.
Before then, she covered global issues including war crimes, the global
HIV/AIDS epidemic and narcotics trafficking.
Beginning in 1989, she served as national editor, then assistant managing editor
for national news, for ten years directing the Post's award-winning coverage of
the White House, Congress and national policies and politics as well as the
paper's domestic bureaus. From 1977 through 1988, she worked for the foreign
news operation, as bureau chief for Latin America, foreign editor, and bureau
chief in London. DeYoung joined the Post in 1975 after working as a non-staff
stringer in West Africa. She grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida and holds a
degree in journalism and communications from the University of Florida. She
lives with her husband and two children in Washington, D.C.
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Stephane Dion
Panel 3: Energy and the Environment
Stéphane Dion was Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs between 1996 and
2003, longer than any other Canadian since Confederation. As Minister of the
Environment from 2004 to 2005, he secured one of the greenest budgets in the
history of Canada and contributed to the rescue of the Kyoto Protocol while
chairing the UN Conference on Climate Change, held in Montreal in 2005.
In 2006, having been elected as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and
having become Leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons, he
proposed a visionary plan to make Canada richer, fairer and greener. Following
the 2008 election, he retained his seat as Member of Parliament for SaintLaurent-Cartierville, a seat he has won seven times in a row since 1996.
Mr. Dion was the recipient of the 2011 Couchiching Award for Public Policy
Leadership and sits on the External Advisory Board of the Yale Climate and
Energy Institute.At the present time, Mr. Dion acts as Liberal Critic for
Intergovernmental Affairs, the Queen’s Privy Council of Canada, Canadian
Heritage and Official Languages.
Ambassador Gary Doer
Canadian Embassy Reception
In October 2009, Gary Doer assumed his responsibilities as Canada's 23rd
representative to the United States of America. Prior to taking up his current
position in Washington, Ambassador Doer served as Premier of Manitoba for ten
years. During that time, he worked extensively with U.S. Governors to enhance
Canada-U.S. cooperation on trade, agriculture, water protection, climate change
and renewable energy.
Ambassador Doer won three consecutive elections as Premier of Manitoba with
successive increased majorities. In 2005, he was named by Business Week
magazine as one of the top 20 international leaders on climate change. His
government introduced balanced budgets during each of his ten years in office
while reducing many taxes, including a plan to eliminate small business tax. As
Premier, he led strategic investments in health care, education, and training and
infrastructure. Ambassador Doer is a native of Winnipeg.
Thomas L. Friedman
Panel 3: Energy and the Environment
Thomas L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third
Pulitzer for The New York Times. He became the paper’s foreign-affairs Op-Ed
columnist in 1995. Previously, he served as chief economic correspondent in the
Washington bureau and before that he was the chief White House
correspondent. In 2005, Mr. Friedman was elected as a member of the Pulitzer
Prize Board.
Mr. Friedman joined The Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in
1982. In 1984 Mr. Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he
served as Israel bureau chief until 1988. Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983
Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer
Prize for international reporting (from Israel).
Mr. Friedman is the author of “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” which won both the
National Book Award and the Overseas Press Club Award in 1989. “The Lexus
and the Olive Tree” was the winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for
best non-fiction book on foreign policy. His 2002 book “Longitudes and Attitudes:
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Exploring the World After September 11” consists of columns he published about
the attacks. “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century,”
issued in April 2005 and updated in 2006 and 2007, received the inaugural
Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.
“Hot, Flat, and Crowded” was published in 2008, and a paperback edition was
issued a year later. His sixth and most recent book, “That Used to Be Us: How
American Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back,”
co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, was released in September 2011.
Born in Minneapolis on July 20, 1953, Mr. Friedman received a B.A. degree in
Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he received a
Master of Philosophy degree in Modern Middle East studies from Oxford. Mr.
Friedman is married and has two daughters.
industry in Canada.
Gordon Giffin
Panel 4: Organizing the Three Governments and Nations to
Gap: Visions and Institutions
Close the
Ambassador Giffin is the Chair of the Public Policy and International department
of McKenna Long & Aldridge. His practice is focused on international
transactions and trade matters, government procurement, energy regulatory and
policy matters, and federal and state regulatory matters and public policy. He
maintains offices in Washington, DC and Atlanta, Georgia.
Ambassador Giffin has been engaged in the practice of law or government
service for thirty-five years. His law practice involves substantial experience at
the state and federal levels in regulatory and administrative litigation in the
energy, technology and telecommunications fields; government procurement
counseling and litigation; public policy strategic counseling and advocacy;
corporate compliance counseling and internal audits; election law; international
transactions; trade matters, including trade disputes and policy counseling.
From August 1997 to April 2001, Ambassador Giffin served as the nineteenth
U.S. Ambassador to Canada. As Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in
Ottawa, he managed U.S. interests in the world's largest bi-lateral trading
relationship in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as well
as U.S. collaboration with Canada on global issues in international fora. In
addition to the Department of State complement in Canada, more than 900
personnel from 21 federal departments and agencies, along with six consulates,
reported to the Ambassador. He received the Superior Honor Award from the
Department of State for negotiating a pre-clearance agreement. From 19751979, he was Legislative Director and Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Sam Nunn
in Washington, DC.
Ambassador Giffin was a recipient of the Emory University School of Law's 2009
Distinguished Alumni Award, which recognizes outstanding alumni who have
achieved distinction in legal practice, teaching, research or public administration.
He has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Emory University School of
Law. He holds a J.D. from Emory University School of Law and a B.A. from Duke
University.
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James Goldgeier
Welcome and Introduction
James Goldgeier is Dean of the School of International Service. Prior to joining
American University, he was a professor of political science and international
affairs at George Washington University. He taught previously at Cornell
University, and has held appointments at Stanford University’s Center for
International Security and Cooperation, the State Department, the National
Security Council staff, the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Library of Congress, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Hoover
Institution, and the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy. From 20012005, he directed GWU’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.
His books include: America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (co-authored
with Derek Chollet), Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the
Cold War (co-authored with Michael McFaul); and Not Whether But When: The
U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO. He is the recipient of the Edgar S. Furniss book
award in national and international security and the Georgetown University
Lepgold Book Prize in international relations.
Among his current projects, Dean Goldgeier and collaborators at Duke University
and the University of California, Berkeley, lead the Bridging the Gap initiative,
which encourages and trains scholars and doctoral students to produce research
oriented, policy-relevant scholarship and/or theoretically informed policy work.
Dean Goldgeier’s areas of expertise include contemporary international relations,
American foreign policy, U.S.-Russia relations, the European Union, transatlantic
security and NATO. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the
University of California, Berkeley and an A.B. in Government from Harvard
University.
Frank Graves
Lunch: CNAS Survey Presentation
As founder of EKOS Research Associates Inc., Frank Graves is
one of Canada’s leading applied social researchers, directing
some of the largest and most challenging social research
assignments conducted in the country. For more than three
decades, the firm has held a reputation for creative and rigorous
research in the areas of public policy, social policy and program
evaluation and as a leader in innovative survey techniques and
methodology.
During his 30 year career, he has directed hundreds of large
scale studies of Canadian attitudes to a vast array issues,
including the economy, immigration, defense and security, health
care, the environment, national unity and Canada-U.S. relations.
His analysis and advice has been sought by senior decision
makers in both the private and public sectors, including CEOs of
top 100 Canadian companies, The Prime Minister’s Office,
federal cabinet, the Clerk of the Privy Council, dozens of federal
Deputy Ministers and the United States Ambassador to Canada,
as well as the Canadian Ambassador to the United States.
Mr. Graves has published widely in academic and mainstream
publications. He has lectured at the Rotman School of Business,
the Kennedy School in Harvard, the University of Ottawa and the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in
Washington.
Mr. Graves is a frequent commentator in Canadian and
American media. He has directed numerous public opinion
research projects on behalf of the CBC, the Toronto Star, the
Globe and Mail and La Presse.
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Mr. Graves graduated from Carleton University with a B.A. in
Social Anthropology, M.A. in Sociology and has completed
doctoral coursework in Sociology. He was recently named a
Fellow of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association,
the highest professional designation in the marketing research
Education.
Gerónimo Gutiérrez
Panel 4: Organizing the Three Governments and Nations to Close
the Gap: Visions and Institutions
Gerónimo Gutiérrez has extensive professional experience and
expertise in U.S.-Mexican relations and border affairs, having served as
the Under Secretary for North America at the Mexican Ministry of
Foreign Relations from 2003 to 2006. In addition, he was Under
Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, and more recently
served as Under Secretary of Government in the Mexican Ministry of
Government.
In the area of finance, he was the Head of Advisory Staff in the Mexican
Ministry of Finance and Public Credit between 1992 and 1994 and an
advisor for the Mexican development bank, Banco de Obras y Servicios
Públicos (BANOBRAS).
Mr. Gutiérrez received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City and
holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University.
Jesse Hereford
Panel 4. Organizing the Three Governments and Nations to Close
the Gap: Visions and Institutions
Jesse Hereford is Chairman of the Border Trade Alliance, and the
Director of Government Relations and Business Development at S&B
Infrastructure, Ltd. Previously he worked in politics in multiple positions
for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, including as Director of State
Outreach and San Antonio Regional Director, and as Director of Public
Policy for the Border Trade Alliance. He holds an IMBA in International
Business from the University of San Diego, and an MPA and BA from
American University.
Dr. Jennifer A. Jeffs
Panel 4: Organizing the Three Governments and Nations
Visions and Institutions
to Close the Gap:
Dr. Jennifer Jeffs is the President of the Canadian International Council (CIC), a
non-partisan, membership-based research council focused on international
affairs. Dr. Jeffs was previously the Deputy Executive Director of the Centre for
International Governance Innovation (CIGI); the Founding Director of the Centro
de Estudios y Programas Interamericanos (CEPI) based at ITAM in Mexico City,
where she was also a professor in the Department of International Studies. Her
professional background includes an executive role at the Council of the
Americas/Americas Society in New York City and various positions in the
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financial services industry in Toronto. Dr. Jeffs is a member of the editorial board
of Foreign Affairs en Español; a Director of the Centro de Estudios y Programas
Interamericanos (CEPI) in Mexico City; a Director of the the Canadian Council of
the Americas; a member of the Board of Directors of the World Wildlife Fund,
Canada; and a member of the Advisory Council of the Canada-Mexico Initiative.
Dr. Jeffs holds a Ph.D. in International Political Economy (IPE) from the
University of Toronto.
Roberta S. Jacobson
Summary and Conclusions Panel
Roberta S. Jacobson was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Western
Hemisphere Affairs on March 30, 2012. Previously Ms. Jacobson was the Acting
Assistant Secretary since July 18, 2011. She served as Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs from December 2010 until
July 2011, with responsibility for regional political and economic issues,
management and personnel, and regional security issues. In addition to her role
as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, she was the senior coordinator for the
Citizen Security initiatives in the Western Hemisphere. From June 2007 until that
date, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Canada, Mexico and NAFTA
issues in the Bureau. She served as Director of the Office of Mexican Affairs from
December 2002. From 2000-2002, she was Deputy Chief of Mission at the US
Embassy in Lima, Peru, and between 1996 and 2000, Ms. Jacobson was director
of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination in the Bureau of Western
Hemisphere Affairs, covering issues such as civil-military relations, human rights,
foreign assistance, and counternarcotics throughout the hemisphere. Ms.
Jacobson has also served as Coordinator for Cuban Affairs within the Bureau of
Western Hemisphere Affairs, executive assistant to the Assistant Secretary
(1993-94), special assistant to the Assistant Secretary (1989-1992), and at the
National Security Council (1988).
Ms. Jacobson holds a Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy (1986) and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown
University. She also worked for the United Nations from 1982-1984 in the Center
for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs. She is the author of articles on
“The Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women” in The
United Nations and Human Rights (Oxford University Press; 1990) and
“Liberation Theology as a Revolutionary Ideology.”
Cornelius M. Kerwin
Welcome and Introduction
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Dr. Cornelius M. Kerwin became American University’s 14 president in
September 2007. He leads an institution of about 13,000 students, 1,300
teaching and administrative faculty, and 2,500 staff in the nation’s capital;
oversees a $548 million operating budget and $434 million endowment; and in
2010, led the $200 million capital campaign to a successful conclusion of more
than $213 million raised.
Dr. Kerwin joined AU in 1975 and holds a faculty appointment in the School of
Public Affairs, Department of Public Administration. He was dean of the School of
Public Affairs from 1988 to 1997; provost from 1997 to 2005; and acting—then
interim—president of American University from 2005 to 2007.
A nationally recognized specialist in public policy and the regulatory process, Dr.
Kerwin is actively engaged in research and periodically teaches courses in
administrative process, policy implementation, and American government. He
founded AU’s Center for the Study of Rulemaking and is the author of
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Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy and coauthor of How Washington Works: The Executive’s Guide to Government.
Dr. Kerwin is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration; a former
president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and
Administration; and founding chair of the Section on Public Law and
Administration of the American Society for Public Administration. He received
degrees from American University (BA), the University of Rhode Island (MA in
political science), and Johns Hopkins University (PhD in political science).
Susan Kurland
Keynote Speaker, Reception at the Canadian Embassy
Susan Kurland is the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs of
the Department of Transportation. As part of the Secretary of Transportation’s
senior team, Kurland directs and implements economic and competition policy
affecting the air transport industry as well as coordinates the Department’s
international activities. Her responsibilities include directing the Department’s
participation in international aviation negotiations throughout the world. She also
serves as the Department decision maker in proceedings involving the allocation
of international aviation route authority, licensing of air carriers, providing air
services to rural communities, and grants of antitrust immunity for international
aviation alliance activities.
She has extensive senior level transportation experience, in both government
and private sector roles. Before joining the Department of Transportation, she
was a managing director at Jefferies & Company in the areas of airport
infrastructure and municipal finance, and headed the firm’s municipal finance
group in Chicago. Kurland has also served as Associate Administrator for
Airports for the Federal Aviation Administration leading the FAA’s national airport
program. In addition, she has been Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
of U.S Airways, and Deputy Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago, serving
as general counsel for Chicago’s airport system. Kurland earned her
undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and her law degree from Boston
University School of Law.
John Manley
Panel 1: Competitiveness in a World of Three Regions
The Honorable John Manley, P.C., O.C., is President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE),
representing the CEOs and entrepreneurs of 150 leading Canadian
corporations. A former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, he was first
elected to Parliament in 1988, and re-elected three times. From 1993 to
2003 he served as Minister in the Cabinet portfolios of Industry, Foreign
Affairs, and Finance. Following 9/11, he chaired a special Cabinet
Committee on Public Security and Anti-terrorism, serving as counterpart
to Governor Tom Ridge, the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.
Since leaving government in 2004, Mr. Manley has continued to be
active in public policy, as a media commentator, speaker and adviser to
governments of differing political stripes. An Officer of the Order of
Canada, he serves on the boards of several publicly traded companies
and is active in the not-for-profit sector.
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Mack F. McLarty
Chair, Immigration: the Social Transformation of North America/North
American Values and Attitudes Lunch Session
The Honorable Mack F. McLarty is chairman of McLarty Associates, an
international advisory firm based in Washington DC. He is also chairman of the
McLarty Companies, a fourth-generation family transportation business based in
Little Rock, Arkansas, which includes a major automotive retail endeavor - RLJMcLarty-Landers - as well as significant activities in Brazil, Mexico, and China.
Mr. McLarty served in the White House under President Clinton in several key
positions: chief of staff, counselor to the president and special envoy for the
Americas, with over five years of service in the President's Cabinet and on the
National Economic Council. While serving in the White House, he was awarded
the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal, as well as the highest
honors from a number of Latin American countries. Prior to his White House
tenure, Mr. McLarty served as chairman of Arkla, a Fortune 500 natural gas
company. Mr. McLarty was appointed to the National Petroleum Council and the
National Council on Environmental Quality by President George H.W. Bush and
served on the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board from 1989 until joining the Clinton
Administration in 1992. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and
a member of the board of directors for Union Pacific, as well as an advisor and
board member for a number of other private and nonprofit organizations. Mr.
McLarty graduated cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a degree in
business administration, and was awarded an honorary doctor of laws from the
University in 2000.
Eduardo Medina-Mora
Dinner and Keynote Speaker, Mexican Embassy Dinner
Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza has built a distinguished career in
both the public and the private sectors. Before coming to Washington, he was
Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom (2009-1012). Previous to that
appointment, he held cabinet-level positions in the Mexican federal
government. He was Attorney General (2006-2009). He also served as
Secretary for Public Security (2005-2006), and as Director General of the
Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN), the Mexican Civil
Intelligence Agency (2000-2005). In these capacities he served as a member of
the Public Security Cabinet and of the National Security Council.
In his posts, Ambassador Medina Mora has had important responsibilities in
international fora and negotiations, including negotiator for the Alliance for
Prosperity and Security in North America (2004-2005); Chief Negotiator for the
Mexico-U.S. Border Partnership Agreement in 2002; member of the High-Level
Group on Border Security Mexico-Guatemala and Mexico-Belize; and he has
been a key member of many delegations and bilateral task forces on security
cooperation between Mexico and the U.S., Canada, Colombia and Guatemala.
In the private sector he was Corporate Director of Strategic Planning and Deputy
Director General of DESC Group (1991-2000), a large Mexican conglomerate in
the fields of automotive parts, petrochemicals, agribusiness and real estate. He
also coordinated the legal advisory team to the Mexican Government during the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations.
Ambassador Medina Mora has lectured at conferences and international
seminars in Mexico, Latin America and Europe on trade and development,
national security, terrorism, public security, organized crime and human rights.
He is co-editor of the book Legitimate Use of Force, published by Mexico’s
National Institute of Criminal and Forensic Studies (INACIPE) in 2008, and
author of the book Fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone, published by the
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Ministry of Fisheries in 1989. He has also been a member of the Mexican Bar
Association and of the American Bar Association.
John Melle
Panel 1: Competitiveness in a World of Three Regions
John M. Melle is Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Western
Hemisphere. He is responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing
U.S. trade policy for the region. This includes responsibility for the pending trade
agreements with Colombia and Panama, as well as trade agreements in place
with Canada and Mexico, Chile, Central America and the Dominican Republic
and Peru. In addition, Mr. Melle is responsible for two regional trade preference
programs, the Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA) and the Caribbean Basin
Initiative (CBI), as well as bilateral trade with Brazil, Argentina and the remainder
of South America and the Caribbean.
Since joining USTR in 1988, Mr. Melle has held a number of positions. Most
recently, since 2002 he was the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for
North America, with responsibility for oversight of the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and bilateral trade issues with Canada and Mexico. Mr.
Melle has worked on Western Hemisphere trade issues in various other
capacities since 1991, including Director of Caribbean Basin Affairs from 1991 to
1993 and Director and Deputy Assistant USTR for Mexico from 1993-2002. He
began his career at USTR as Deputy Director of the Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP) from 1988 to 1991. Mr. Melle entered Federal government
service as a Presidential Management Intern and spent his first two years in
government service at the Policy, Planning and Analysis Office at the U.S.
Department of Energy. Mr. Melle received a B.A. in history from Haverford
College and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan.
Sergio Montaño
Panel 2: Shared Responsibility and Institutional Collaboration for Security
Issues and Judicial Reform
For the last year Sergio Montaño has been the Executive Director and cofounder of the Institution Law and Security Center. ILSC.
During the administration of President Felipe Calderón (2006-12) he was
Undersecretary of Administrative Affairs in the Ministry of Public Security where
he was responsible for the control, administration and execution of financial the
resources. He is also well known in the Mexican political sphere for playing an
important role in lobbing for equal resource distribution among different federal
ministries throughout various presidential administrations.
Throughout his career, Montaño has held a number of important positions within
the Federal Government including General Director of Programming and Budgets
within the Ministry of Finance where he oversaw the correct implementation of
the Federation’s Expenditure Budget and its integration. He was also and head
assistant to President Zedillo’s Chief of Staff. Later on he was appointed General
Planning Director for the Economics Cabinet within the President’s Office.
Montaño’s work included articles on financial and security issues in the Mexico
City’s newspaper El Economista.
In his new phase as researcher and speaker in various forums, his interests
centered on the research and design of public policies aimed at reforming and
strengthening national security, energy and environmental policies in Mexico. He
holds a Masters in Philosophy and a Masters in Economic Theory of Democracy
from Essex University, UK.
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Matt Morrison
Panel 4: Organizing the Three Governments and Nations to Close the Gap:
Visions and Institutions
Matt Morrison, CEO of the Pacific North-West Economic Region (PNWER) since
2000, serves the public/private partnership established in 1991 by statute in the
states of Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, and the western
Canadian provinces and territories of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan,
the Yukon, and Northwest Territories. His duties include coordinating all projects
of PNWER, which include PNWER’s Center for Regional Disaster Resilience, the
Legislative Energy Horizon Institute, and the University President’s Roundtable.
Mr. Morrison has 20 years of experience in managing regional projects with
multiple states in the western regions of the US and Canada.
Andrés Oppenheimer
Panel: Summary and Conclusions
Andrés Oppenheimer is the Latin American editor and syndicated foreign
affairs columnist with The Miami Herald. His column, The Oppenheimer
Report, appears twice a week in The Miami Herald and more than 60 U.S.
and foreign newspapers, including El País of Spain, La Nación, of
Argentina, and Reforma, of Mexico. He is the author of the best sellers
¡Basta de Historias!, Saving the Americas and four other best-selling
books, and anchors his own Spanish-language television show,
“Oppenheimer Presenta,” which airs in CNN en Español in the United
States, Latin America and the Caribbean.
His previous jobs at The Miami Herald included Mexico City bureau
chief, foreign correspondent, and business writer. He previously worked
for five years with The Associated Press in New York, and has
contributed on a free-lance basis to The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The New Republic, the BBC, and CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
He is the co-winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize as a member of The Miami
Herald team that uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. He won the InterAmerican Press Association Award twice (1989 and 1994), and the 1997
award of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He is the
winner of the 1993 Ortega y Gasset Award of Spain's daily El País, the
1998 Maria Moors Cabot Award of Columbia University, the 2001 King of
Spain Award, given out by the Spanish news agency EFE and King Juan
Carlos I of Spain, the Overseas Press Club Award in 2002, and the
Suncoast Emmy award from the National Academy of Television, Arts
and Sciences in 2006.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he studied law, and moved to the
United States in 1976 with a fellowship from the World Press Institute.
After a year at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, he obtained a
Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York in
1978. In 2004 he received an Honorary Degree in Education at the
Galileo University in Guatemala.
He is the author of several books, most recently ¡Basta de historias! La
obsesión latinoamericana con el pasado y las 12 claves del futuro,,
published by Random House/Debate/Sudamericana is about his recent
trips to India, China, Singapore, Finland and other countries that are
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making great progress in education, science and technology, and a
comparison with what is happening in Mexico, Argentina, and other
countries.
Juan E. Pardinas
Panel 1: Competitiveness in a World of Three Regions
Juan E. Pardinas is director of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.
He has previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Secretariat of Finance, and the
Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru. As a journalist, he was a
CNN correspondent in India and Japan. He also writes a weekly op-ed
column for Reforma in Mexico City. He obtained his PhD from the
London School of Economics, a Master’s in Economics at Sophia
University in Tokyo, and a BA in Political Science at the National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Robert A. Pastor, CNAS Director
Robert A. Pastor is Professor of International Relations and Founder and
Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University
(AU). He has combined a career in government, academe, nongovernmental organizations, and as a consultant to business. Dr.
Pastor was Director of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs on the
National Security Council (1977-81), Consultant to the State and
Defense Departments, and was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be
Ambassador to Panama. He was Vice Chair of the Council on Foreign
Relations Task Force on the Future of North America, which issued a
report “Building a North American Community” in May 2005.
Dr. Pastor was a Fulbright Professor at El Colegio de Mexico, a Peace
Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, and Visiting Professor at Harvard
University, where he received his Ph.D. in Government and an M.P.A.
from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1986 until
September 2002, Dr. Pastor was Professor at Emory University and
Fellow and Founding Director of the Latin American Program and the
Democracy Project at The Carter Center. Dr. Pastor is the author or
editor of seventeen books, including The North American Idea: A Vision
of a Continental Future (published in Mexico as La Idea de América del
Norte: Una Vision de un Futuro Como Continente por Miguel Angel
Porrúa, 2012), Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico with
Jorge Castañeda; and The U.S. Congress and North America: The
Controversial Pivot with Rafael Fernández de Castro.
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Colin Robertson
Panel 4: Organizing the Three Governments and Nations to Close the Gap:
Visions and Institutions
Colin Robertson focuses his practice on U.S.-Canada government relations,
advising clients on policy issues that involve perspectives from both sides of the
border. Mr. Robertson was recognized as one of the “Top 80 Influencing Canada
Foreign Policy” by The Hill Times Embassy Newspaper in 2012 and 2013. Before
joining MLA he was a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson
School of International Affairs. He is a former president of the National Capital
Branch of the Canadian International Council and is currently a Vice President
and Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs
Institute. He writes on international relations and is a regular commentator on
CBC and CTV.
A career foreign service officer, Mr. Robertson served at the UN and Canadian
Consulate in New York, in Hong Kong, as Consul General in Los Angeles, and
the first head of the Advocacy Secretariat at the Canadian Embassy in
Washington. He was part of the team that negotiated the Canada-U.S. Free
Trade Agreement and the NAFTA. He also held executive positions at
Citizenship and Immigration and the Treasury Board Secretariat and with PetroCanada International Assistance Corporation. He served as president of the
Historical Foundation from 2006-2007.
At Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, he
directed a project on Canada-US relations in the Centre for Trade Policy and
Law, involving the federal and provincial governments, private and non-profit
sectors. A former president of the Professional Association of Foreign Service
Officers and editor of bout de papier, Canada’s magazine of diplomacy and
foreign service, he is co-author of Decision at Midnight: an inside account of the
Free Trade Negotiations.
Mr. Robertson was honored with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
in 2012 by the Government of Canada. He was also recognized by the Pacific
NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) with its 2012 “Hot Potato Award” for his
work in increasing collaboration between the U.S. and Canadian organizations
and stakeholders. Mr. Robertson is the recipient of the Alberta Centennial Medal
(2005), the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal (2006), the Alberta Motion Picture
Industry Association ‘Friend of the Industry’ (2004), and the distinguished
alumnus award from the University of Manitoba (2004). He holds a B.A. Honours
(First Class), University of Manitoba, and an M.A. in International Affairs from
Carleton University.
Andrés Rozental
Panel 4: Organizing the Three Governments and Nations to Close the Gap:
Visions and Institutions
Andrés Rozental was Mexico’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1995 to
1997. He was a career diplomat for more than 35 years, having served his
country as Deputy Foreign Minister (1988-1994), Ambassador to Sweden (198388), Permanent Representative of México to the United Nations in Geneva
(1982-83), as well as in various responsibilities within the Mexican Foreign
Ministry and abroad. Since 1994, he holds the permanent rank of Eminent
Ambassador of México.
Currently, Ambassador Rozental holds non-executive Board positions in several
multinational corporations in Brazil, United States, France, the United Kingdom
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and México. He is the President of his own consulting firm, Rozental &
Asociados, that specializes in advising multinational companies on their
corporate strategies in Latin America. He is also active in several nongovernmental projects relating to global governance, migration policy, Latin
American politics and democracy promotion.
Ambassador Rozental obtained his professional degree in international relations
from the Universidad de las Américas in México, and his Master’s in International
Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of four books on
Mexican foreign policy and of numerous chapters and articles on international
affairs.
Guillermo Ruiz Gutiérrez
Panel 3: Energy and the Environment
Guillermo Ruiz Gutiérrez was born in Mexico City in April 27, 1959. He studied
and obtained B. Sc. in Mathematics from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
(UAM) in 1981. He studied M. Sc. in Economics and Business Administration
from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus (ITESM) in 1987.
Guillermo Ruiz Gutiérrez, has professional experience of 30 years in Petróleos
Mexicanos (Pemex) in the areas of Planning, International Market analysis,
Economic studies, Transfer pricing systems, Operations and strategic planning,
as well as Benchmarking analysis. In 1983 he initiated his work at Pemex as
Analyst in Energy Economics and International Market Analyst for the
International Trade Department.
In 1989 he began to work for the Planning Direction as Deputy Manager of
Operations research, and in 1992 he was promoted to General Manager of
Economic Studies in the Planning Area, and from 1993 until 1994 as Pricing
Systems Manager, reporting to Chief Operating Officer (Corporate Direction of
Operations). From December 1994 up to July 2001 he was appointed as
Planning Director for Pemex Refining.
In July 2001 he worked for the Corporate Direction of Operations as Deputy
Director of Evaluation of Operations, and then in 2006 as Deputy Director of
Strategic and Operational Planning, and in July 2010 he was Deputy Director of
Operations and Strategic Execution. Since February 2011 up to date he has
been Planning Director, Coordination and Evaluation at Pemex Refining. His
main responsibilities are the corporate strategy integration, the operation
programs according to the short, medium and long term investment plans. In
addition to the evaluation of operational performance, thereby contributing to
satisfy the national demand for oil products and maximize the economic value of
the subsidiary’s assets and Petróleos Mexicanos.
Francisco Sanchez
Keynote Address, Mexican Embassy Dinner
Francisco J. Sánchez serves as Under Secretary for International Trade at the
U.S. Department of Commerce, a post he was appointed to by President Barack
Obama in 2009. As Under Secretary, Sánchez leads the International Trade
Administration, an organization of 2,400 employees with offices throughout the
United States and in 73 countries. Sánchez leads the efforts to improve the
global business environment by helping U.S. businesses compete abroad.
As one of the architects of President Obama’s National Export Initiative (NEI),
with the ambitious goal of doubling U.S. exports by the end of 2014, Sánchez
directs programs and policies that promote and protect the competitiveness of
American businesses. Under his leadership, working with partners in
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government, ITA has helped reach significant export milestones. In 2012, U.S.
exports reached a record $2.2 trillion in total value supporting nearly 10 million
jobs, an increase of 1.3 million since 2009.
During his tenure, Sánchez placed a unique focus on export promotion. Since
2009, ITA successfully has assisted more than 22,000 companies, supporting
more than $190 billion in U.S exports. He also put a priority on ensuring that
American businesses can compete on a level playing field globally. Sánchez
reenergized and refocused ITA’s Advocacy Center, which has helped companies
win international government contracts totaling more than $120 billion in U.S.
export content, supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs, since the beginning of
the Obama Administration. He has also strengthened relations with priority
markets, playing a leading role in advancing the U.S.–Brazil Commercial
Dialogue, the U.S.–Turkey Business Council, and the U.S.–Indonesia
Commercial Dialogue.
Sánchez has a long and distinguished career in both the public and private
sectors. During the Clinton Administration, he served as the Assistant Secretary
for Aviation and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Sánchez previously served in the White House as a Special Assistant to
President Clinton, and Chief of Staff to the Special Envoy to the Americas.
In addition to his public service, Sánchez spent more than 15 years working with
several leading consulting companies on projects involving negotiation strategy
and training, most recently as a partner with CMPartners. Among his privatesector achievements, Sánchez served as a consultant to the President of
Ecuador in negotiations that led to the resolution of a long-running border dispute
with Peru.
Sánchez was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic
Business Magazine and also one of the top Hispanics nationwide by Poder
Magazine. Sánchez is on the board of directors for the Overseas Private
Investment Corporation (OPIC) and is a member of the Council of Foreign
Relations. He has been awarded the National Point of Light Award and the
Governor’s Point of Light Award for Outstanding Community Service. In 2010, he
was named to the National Hall of Fame for the Boys and Girls Club of America.
A native of Florida, Sánchez obtained his B.A. and J.D. from Florida State
University. He also received a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University.
Christopher Sands
Panel 2: Shared Responsibility and Institutional Collaboration for Security
Issues and Judicial Reform
Christopher Sands is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute where he directs the
Hudson Initiative on North American Competitiveness. He is also a senior fellow
with the American University Center for North American Studies and an adjunct
professor in the American University School of Public Service. In addition, Sands
holds the G. Robert Ross Chair in Canada-U.S. Business and Economic
Relations at Western Washington University and is a professorial lecturer at the
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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David Sanger
Panel 1: Competitiveness in a World of Three Regions
David E. Sanger is Chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times.
Mr. Sanger has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, covering a
wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear
proliferation and Asian affairs. Twice he has been a member of Times reporting
teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2011, Mr. Sanger was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for
International Reporting for their coverage of the tsunami and nuclear disaster in
Japan. Before covering the White House, Mr. Sanger specialized in the
confluence of economic and foreign policy, and wrote extensively on how issues
of national wealth and competitiveness have come to redefine the relationships
between the United States and its major allies.
As a correspondent and then Bureau Chief in Tokyo for six years, he covered
Japan’s rise as the world’s second largest economic power, and then its
humbling recession. He also filed frequently from Southeast Asia, and wrote
many of the first stories about North Korea’s secret nuclear weapons program in
the 1990’s. He continues to cover proliferation issues from Washington. Leaving
Asia in 1994, Mr. Sanger took up the position of Chief Washington economic
correspondent, and covered a series of global economic upheavals, from Mexico
to the Asian economic crisis. He was named a senior writer in March 1999, and
White House correspondent later that year.
Mr. Sanger joined The Times in the Business Day section, specializing in the
computer industry and high-technology trade. In 1986 he played a major role in
the team that investigated the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster,
writing the first stories about what the space agency knew about the potential
flaws in the shuttle’s design and revealing that engineers had raised objections to
launching the shuttle. The team won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for national
reporting. He was a member of another Pulitzer-winner team that wrote about
the struggles within the Clinton administration over controlling exports to China.
Mr. Sanger appears regularly on public affairs and news shows. He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.
Born on July 5, 1960, in White Plains, N.Y., Mr. Sanger was educated in the
public school system there and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
College in 1982.
Andrew Selee
Panel 2: Shared Responsibility and Institutional Collaboration for Security
Issues and Judicial Reform
Andrew Selee became the Wilson Center’s Vice President for Programs in
April 2012. He was the founding Director the Center’s Mexico Institute from
2003-12. He is an adjunct professor of Government at Johns Hopkins
University and of International Affairs at George Washington University and
has been a visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico. His most recent
publications are What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide for Policy
Impact (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), Mexico and the United
States: The Politics of Partnership (Lynne Rienner, 2013), and Mexico's
Democratic Challenges (Stanford University Press/Woodrow Wilson Center
Press, 2010). He has written extensively on U.S.-Mexico relations, Mexican
politics, U.S. immigration policy, organized crime, and democracy in Latin
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America. Selee is co-director of the Regional Migration Study Group,
convened by the Migration Policy Institute and the Wilson Center, and was a
member of Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on Immigration. Prior to
joining the Wilson Center as a program associate in the Latin American
Program in 2000, he was a professional staffer in the U.S. House of
Representatives and worked for five years with the YMCA of Baja California
in Tijuana, Mexico, helping to start a community center and a home for
migrant youth. He holds a Ph.D. in Policy Studies from the University of
Maryland, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California,
San Diego, and a B.A. in Latin American Studies (Phi Beta Kappa) from
Washington University in St. Louis.
Ray Suarez
Lunch. Immigration: the Social Transformation of North
America/North American Values and Attitudes
Ray Suarez joined the PBS NewsHour in October 1999 as a
Washington-based Senior Correspondent. Suarez came to The
NewsHour from NPR where he had been host of the nationwide, call-in
news program "Talk of the Nation" since 1993. Prior to that, he spent
seven years covering local and national stories for the NBC-owned
station, WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
His new book, the companion volume to a documentary series airing on
PBS, chronicling the history of Latinos in America will be published in
September 2103. He is also the author of The Holy Vote: The Politics of
Faith in America. Suarez wrote The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in
the Great Suburban Migration (Free Press, 1999), and has contributed to
several other books, including The Oxford Companion to American
Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012), What We See (New Village
Press, 2010), How I Learned English (National Geographic, 2007),
Brooklyn: A State of Mind (Workman, 2001), Local Heroes (Norton,
2000), Saving America's Treasures (National Geographic, 2000), and
Last Christmas (Knopf, 1998). Suarez also hosts the monthly foreign
affairs radio program "America Abroad" for Public Radio International.
From 2008-11, he was the anchor of the weekly program on Latino
politics, "Destination Casa Blanca," for HITN TV.
At the NewsHour, Suarez has been the lead correspondent for the
program’s global health coverage. He has reported on some of the
world’s most threatening health crises from Africa, Latin America, and
Asia.
Earlier in his career, Suarez was a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN,
a producer for the ABC Radio Network in New York, a reporter for CBS
Radio in Rome, and a reporter for various American and British news
services in London. Over the years he has narrated, anchored and
reported many documentaries for public radio and television including
the nationally-broadcasts “Homeland” (2012, PBS/KETC TV), “Anatomy
of a Pandemic” (2009, PBS) and “Jerusalem: The Center of the World”
(2009, PBS), a weekly series ”Follow the Money” (1997, PBS), and
programs including “Who Speaks for Islam?” (LinkTV, 2005, 2009), “By
The People” (PBS, 2004-07),” The Journey Home” (2004, WETA) “The
Execution Tapes” (2001, Public Radio), and “Through Our Own Eyes”
(2000, KQED).
In 2010 Suarez was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Assn.
of Hispanic Journalists. He is a co-recipient of NPR's 1993-94 and 199495 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards for on-site coverage of the first
all-race elections in South Africa and the first 100 days of the 104th
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Congress, respectively. He was honored with the 1996 Ruben Salazar
Award from the National Council of La Raza, and the 2005 Distinguished
Policy Leadership Award from UCLA's School of Public Policy.
Manuel Suárez-Mier
Interim Director, CNAS, as of January 2014
Manuel Suarez-Mier is Economist-in-Residence and Professor in the
International Economics Relations Program of the School of International
Service at American University.
Throughout a professional career that spans over 40 years, Suárez-Mier
successively combined working in the financial system and the foreign
service of Mexico as well as for transnational financial institutions, with
teaching economics at the Technological Institute of Mexico and the
universities of New Mexico and Georgetown. He did his doctoral studies
at the University of Chicago, was the Chief of Staff of the Governor of the
Bank of Mexico and the top economic diplomat in Washington at the time
of the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA). Between 2007 and 2009 he represented the Attorney General
of Mexico in the U.S. when the Mérida Initiative, a plan for both nations
to jointly fight transnational criminal organizations, was negotiated and
approved by the U.S. Congress. He has written extensively on issues
related to Latin America’s political economy and security issues in North
America. He writes a weekly op-ed column in Mexico City’s Excelsior
newspaper.
María Isabel Studer Noguez Panel 3: Energy and the Environment
Isabel Studer holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns
Hopkins University-School of Advanced International Studies and a degree in
International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico. She is the Founding Director of
the Global Institute for Sustainability, a joint initiative of Tecnológico de Monterrey
and Arizona State University, and Director of the Greening of Value Chains
Program (a MIF-Tec de Monterrey Program). She is also professor of the Business
School of Tec de Monterrey and Coordinator of the "Green Business" Initiative. A
Fulbright and Ford Foundation scholar, she also directed and founded the Center
for Dialogue and Analysis on North America (CEDAN).
Dr. Studer has held a number of public policy positions in the Mexican
government. She was Deputy General-Director for Canada at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Director General for the U.S. and Canada at the Ministry of
Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) and Alternate Representative
of the Minister to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North
America (CEC). She was also Research Director for the Commission Labor
Cooperation (CLC) in Washington DC. She is Member of the Mexican Council on
Foreign Relations, of the Editorial Board of Foreign Policy, Mexican Edition, and
of the Research Program on Climate Change at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), and a commentator at El Palenque of Animal
Político. She writes a bi-weekly op-ed for El Universal, was editorialist for
Excelsior and member of the Editorial Board of Reforma and of the Academic
Council of the School of Intelligence and National Security (EISEN). In 2013, the
magazine Petróleo & Energía recognized Dr. Studer for her academic and
scientific accomplishments and listed her as one of the 100 most influential
leaders in the Mexican energy sector. In this same year she was appointed by
the Mexican President as member of the Council of Climate Change, an entity
created by the Mexican Law on Climate Change to advise in the design and
implementation of federal climate policies. Member of the Mexican National
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Research System (Level II), Dr. Studer has written widely on economic
integration, regional governance, the auto industry, labor and labor migration,
trade and environment, environmental standards and climate change and
renewable energy. She is an international affairs and sustainable development
commentator for major Mexican and international media outlets. Among her most
important publications are: Designing Integration: Regional Governance on
Climate Change in North America (coedited with Neil Craick and Debora Van
Njnatten, Toronto University Press, 2013); Requiem or Revival? The Promise of
North American Integration (coedited with Carol Wise, Brookings Institute, 2007),
and Ford Global Strategies and the North American Auto Industry (Routledge,
2002).
Javier Treviño
Panel 2: Shared Responsibility and Institutional Collaboration for Security
Issues and Judicial Reform
Javier Treviño is a Member of Mexico’s Federal Congress (Diputado, State of
Nuevo León, Institutional Revolutionary Party - PRI). He serves as secretary of
the Energy and the Finance Committees, and he is a member of the Migratory
Affairs and the Information and the Communications Technologies Committees.
Before being elected to Congress, Mr. Treviño served as Secretary of
Governance (Lieutenant Governor) in the State of Nuevo León (2009-2012), and
he held several high-ranking positions in the Mexican Federal Government,
including Deputy Finance Minister for Administration (1998-2000), Deputy Foreign
Minister (1994-1998), and Minister for Public Affairs and Spokesman at the
Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1989-1993), during the North American
Free Trade Agreement negotiations.
In the private sector, Mr. Treviño served as Senior Vice President for Corporate
Communications and Public Affairs of CEMEX, a global building materials
company with operations in over 50 countries (2001-2009). He is a frequent
collaborator of national newspapers, including Milenio Daily and Reforma, where
he writes about Mexican politics and international affairs, as well as a
commentator in TV and radio shows. He has served as Vice President of the
Mexican Council on International Affairs (Comexi), and he has been a member of
the board of the Institute of the Americas, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico
Institute, the OAS’ Trust for the Americas, the North American Center at Arizona
State University, and of the Trust of El Colegio de México, a leading Mexican
university and think tank.
Mr. Treviño holds a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México,
and a Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University. He divides his time between Mexico City and
his native city of Monterrey, Nuevo León.
Ricardo Zuniga
Panel 1: Competitiveness in a World of Three Regions
Ricardo Zuniga is a career Foreign Service Officer, currently
serving as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Mr. Zuniga served as
the Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil
from 2010 to 2012 when he joined the National Security Staff.
From 2009 he served as the acting Director of the Office of
Cuban Affairs in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. In
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this position, he was responsible for the full scope of U.S.
relations with Cuba and for coordinating the formulation and
implementation of interagency initiatives related to Cuba. Mr.
Zuniga also served as the Political Counselor at the U.S. Mission
to the Organization of American States (OAS), with responsibility
for U.S. political relations with OAS member states. He was the
Deputy Political Counselor in Madrid from 2004 to 2007, where
he was responsible for fostering counter terrorism cooperation
between the United States and Spain.
Since joining the Foreign Service in 1993, Mr. Zuniga has also
worked in Mexico, Portugal, and Havana, and in the State
Department in Washington D.C. as the Desk Officer for Uganda
and Tanzania in the Office of East African Affairs, and in the
Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) as a Cuba/Caribbean
Analyst. Mr. Zuniga received a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Latin
American Studies from the University of Virginia.