Antonio Ortiz-Mena

Head of Section, Economic Affairs, Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Work Experience

• Mexican Budget and Programming Ministry (SPP), 1987-1988. Advisor to the Deputy Minister for Social and Regional Development and co-coordinator of the UNICEF-SPP research project on the social costs of the macroeconomic economic adjustment program in Mexico 1982-1988.
• Mexican Fisheries Ministry (SEPESCA), 1989-1991. Advisor to the Minister. Participated in domestic issues (privatization and deregulation of the fisheries sector and relations with fishing cooperatives) and international issues (Mexico-US relations and the tuna embargo).
• Mexican Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development (SECOFI), NAFTA Negotiation Office, 1991-1993. Director of Relations with Congress and State Governments; member of NAFTA translation team.
• CIDE, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (www.cide.edu), 1999-april 2006. Chair, International Studies Department. Researcher and Professor of International Political Economy. Research areas: the politics of trade policy of Latin American countries, international institutions and the management of economic relations. Courses taught: Latin America: Economy, Politics, and Society, Introduction to International Relations, International Political Economy, Regional Economic Integration.
• Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. Head of Section, Economic Affairs. May 2007-present.

Academic Background

• Bachelor of Arts in Political Sociology (UAM-Azcapotzalco) 1986

• Master of Arts in Area Studies, Major in Economics of Latin American Development (University of London: London School of Economics and Political Science-University College London-Institute of Latin American Studies) 1987
• Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Major in International Political Economy (University of California, San Diego) 2001. Ph. D. dissertation: “The Politics of Institutional Choice: International Trade and Dispute Settlement.” Fulbright Scholarship 1993-1997. Dissertation committee: Prof. Stephan Haggard, Prof. Miles Kahler, Prof David A. Lake, Prof. Peter H. Smith, Prof. Richard Feinberg.