Professor and head of the Department of Political Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. His research interests include democratization, political parties, and social mobilization. She is currently working on a research project that analyzes the impact of the institutionalization of political parties on the levels of protest and policing of protests in four Latin American countries governed by the left (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela). His most recent book, “Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil,” discusses the implications of left-wing party victories for protest strategies. She is also the author of “Taking on Goliath,” about the change in the party system and the founding of the main leftist political party in Mexico. He has published extensively on Mexican elections, campaigns, the effects of party primaries, and the Mexican left.

Program Manager/ Project Policy Analyst at the Center for United States-Mexico Studies at the University of California San Diego (USMEX). She is also a researcher affiliated with the Center for Studies on Security, Intelligence and Governance of ITAM (CESIG).

More than fifteen years of professional experience in the Mexican government sector as well as in the development and implementation of public policy. She has also worked in the academic sector as a consultant and professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). She was also coordinator of the CESIG.

In the public sector, she was assigned to the Protection Department of the Consulate General of Mexico in San Jose, CA. Later, he worked at Financiera Rural, a government development bank focused on granting credit and subsidies to the Mexican rural sector. As part of the activities carried out in that unit, she was in charge of designing and implementing a financing program for Mexican migrants in the United States. Finally, she was an advisor and head of office in the Foreign Relations Commission of the Senate of the Republic.

Managing Partner of Intelligent Systems and Market Opinion at SIMO Consulting, S.C.

She received her master’s degree in public policy and administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006. She specializes in human rights and security with a focus on democratic systems.

Law Degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Master in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and doctoral candidate in Political Science from the University of Washington. He has a specialty in Comparative Adversarial Legal Systems from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and Anticorruption from the International Anticorruption Academy, in Austria. He is a researcher at the UNAM Legal Research Institute. He is founder, and since then, he directs the Judicial Reform magazine. He is a professor of Constitutional Law and Legal Sociology at various universities including UNAM and the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM).

Head of research in security programs at the Center for United States-Mexico Studies at the University of California San Diego and affiliated researcher at the Center for Studies on Security, Intelligence and Governance at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). Cecilia is a specialist in organized crime and security cooperation between Mexico and the United States. Cecilia has worked as a consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United States Institute of Peace, is a member of the network of experts of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and is part of the strategic committee of the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development. Cecilia is co-founder and editor of the Mexico Violence Resource Project that generates accessible content and maintains an updated database with relevant information on violence in Mexico.

Professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and director of the Center for United States-Mexico Studies (USMEX). He was a foreign policy adviser to President Felipe Calderón, and is an expert on bilateral relations between Mexico and the United States. He has published academic articles and written several books, including “Relaciones contemporáneas entre los EE.UU. y América Latina: ¿cooperación o conflicto en el siglo XXI?” and Estados Unidos y México: entre sociedad y conflicto” with Jorge Domínguez. He also served as Project Director for the PNUD Human Development Report for Latin America 2013-14, “Citizen Security with a Human Face: Evidence and Proposals for Latin America”. He is the founder of the magazine Foreign Affairs Latin America and collaborates with the newspaper El Financiero and Noticieros Televisa.

Research Director of the Initiative on the Future of Democracy and Director of the International Law and Regulation Laboratory of the School of Global Policy and Strategy both at the University of California San Diego. As Research Director, she leads a broad program of theoretical and empirical research on challenges to democratic representation, elections, inclusive democracy, technology and democracies, and authoritarian international relations. Hafner-Burton is the author of the book “Making Human Rights a Reality”, awarded as the best book of 2015 by the International Studies Association (Asociación de Estudios Internacionales). In his book, he analyzes the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights and the difficulties that international law has faced on the matter.

Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California Merced and affiliated researcher with the MIT Governance Lab and the Stanford Governance Project. She studies issues of comparative political behavior and political economy using a variety of methods, such as field experiments, surveys, interviews, and observational data. His book project, titled “Intermediarios del Estado: los costos de transacción burocráticos para reclamar asistencia social en México”, explores how bureaucratic transaction costs prevent people from directly claiming social assistance benefits. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2020 from MIT and has been a predoctoral fellow at USMEX and a postdoctoral fellow at CDDRL at Stanford University.