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Chair of the International Studies Division at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE). He specializes in research, teaching and consulting in international trade policy and trade negotiations. He worked for the Mexican Planning and Budget Ministry, where he was co-coordinator of the UNICEF-SPP project on the social costs of the macroeconomic adjustment program in Mexico. At the Fisheries Ministry he was advisor to the Minister and dealt with domestic issues (privatization and deregulation of the fishing sector) and international ones (Mexico-United States relations and the tuna embargo). He was a member of the Mexican government’s North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Negotiation Office at the Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development, where he served as the Liaison Director with the Executive and Legislative Branches and was also a member of the Mexican NAFTA translation team. He holds a BA in Political Sociology, an MA in Area Studies (Latin America) from the University of London (University College London-London School of Economics and Political Science-Institute of Latin American Studies), and a PhD in Political Science with a major in international political economy from the University of California, San Diego. His doctoral dissertation was: “The Politics of Institutional Choice: International Trade and Dispute Settlement.” Among his recent publications we can find: "Getting to No: Defending Against Demands in NAFTA Energy Negotiations", in John S. Odell (ed), Developing Countries and the Trade Negotiation Process. Under review by Cambridge University Press. "How to Negotiate over Trade: A Summary of New Research from Developing Countries" (with John S. Odell). CIDE Working Paper CDTEI-113, 2005. "Dispute Settlement in NAFTA: The Challenges Ahead", in Peter H. Smith and Edward J. Chambers (eds), NAFTA in the New Millennium, University of Alberta Press-University of California Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 2002. "La Solución de Controversias en el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte: Un Esbozo Sobre su Desempeño y Retos", Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde (IIK)-Hamburg Working Paper No. 2, 2002. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the University of Geneva MBA in International Organizations, of the Coordinating Committee of the Research Network on Trade in the Americas, and of the Steering Committee of the Latin American Trade Network.