Rafael Fernández de Castroprofessor and director of the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, will be in the Summit 2023 Prosperity: A Possible Purposewhere he will discuss with Ildefonso Guajardo in the conversation Nearshoring in Mexico.
As moderator will be Luis de la Calle Pardo and the objective of this activity will be to reflect on success stories, limits and perspectives, difficulties and options regarding this business strategy.
The summit of Sea of Cortez Forum will be held on November 8, 9 and 10, at Hacienda del Mar Resort, in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur.
Fernandez de Castro has experience as a former advisor to foreign policy of the president Felipe Calderónand is therefore an expert in the bilateral relations between Mexico and the United States.
He is the founder and former chairman of the International Studies Department of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City. He has published numerous academic articles and written several books, including "Relaciones contemporáneas entre Estados Unidos y América Latina: ¿cooperación o conflicto en el siglo XXI?" and "Estados Unidos y México: entre asociación y conflicto", with Jorge Domínguez.
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The professor was the Project Director of the Human Development Report for Latin America 2013-14 He is also the founder and editor of Foreign Affairs Latin America, and is the author of the UNDP report "Citizen Security with a Human Face: Evidence and Proposals for Latin America".
His current research includes a book on leadership and decision-making in Mexican foreign policy and he serves as principal investigator with Professor Jenny Pearce of the London School of Economics for the project "Co-constructing Security Provision in Mexico: A Methodology and Action Plan from Communities to the State".
The project, funded by Mexico's National Science and Technology Council and the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom, works with community, civil society and state actors to build shared understandings of the differential impacts of violence, insecurity and security provision to develop local security agendas built from scratch in four cities severely affected by violence: Tijuana, Apatzingán, Acapulco and Guadalupe.
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