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Agenda 2024

  • Elizabeth Simmons, Vice Chancellor, UC San Diego
  • Caroline Freund, Dean, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
  • Leonardo Lomelí, President, UNAM
  • Rafael Fernández de Castro, Director, USMEX and Aaron Feldman Family Chancellor’s
    Endowed Chair in U.S.-Mexican Studies in Memory of David Feldman
  • Eli Berman, Research Director for International Security Studies at the UC Institute on
    Global Conflict and Cooperation and Professor of Economics, UC San Diego
  • Roberta Jacobson, former U.S. Ambassador, Dinamica Americas
  • Heraldo Muñoz, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile
  • Moderator
    • Amb. Arturo Sarukhan, President, Sarukhan and Associates LLC

Light Refreshment.

  • Denise Dresser, Political Analyst and Professor of Political Science, ITAM
  • Sergio I. García Ríos, Assistant Professor; Associate Director for Research, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Marisa A. Abrajano, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego
  • Ciro Murayama, USMEX Fellow and Professor, UNAM
  • Moderator:
    • Lila Abed, Acting Director, The Wilson Center Mexico Institute

Break.

  • Carlos Serrano, Chief Economist Mexico, BBVA
  • Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and CCGT Senior Fellow, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
  • Beatriz Leycegui, Partner, SAI Law and Economics 
  • Gerardo Esquivel, Former Mexican Central Bank Board member
  • Moderator:
    • María Ariza, CEO, BIVA

Lunch

  • Tania Ortiz Mena, President, Sempra Infrastructure
  • Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President for Global Energy and International Affairs, S&P
    Global Commodity Insights
  • Moderator:
    • David Victor, Professor and Peter Cowhey Center on Global Transformation Chair in
      Innovation and Public Policy, UC San Diego School of Global Policy
  • Theresa Cardinal Brown, Managing Director of immigration and cross-border policy, Bipartisan Policy Center
  • Tom Wong, Associate Professor of Political Science and founding Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center (USIPC), UC San Diego
  • Gustavo Mohar, Founder and CEO, Grupo Atalaya
  • Julia Preston, Contributing Writer, The Marshall Project
  • Moderator:
    • Andrew Selee, President, Migration Policy Institute
  • Thad Kousser, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego
  • Elena Estavillo, former Commissioner, Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute and General Director, Centroi
  • David Danks, Professor of Data Science & Philosophy and affiliate faculty in Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, San Diego
  • Elizabeth Lyons, Associate Professor, UC San Diego
  • Moderator:
    • Alejandra Palacios, Senior Fellow, University of Southern California
  • Roberto Velasco, Chief Officer for North America, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
  • Amb. Alicia G. Kerber-Palma, Consul General of Mexico in San Diego
  • Amb. Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles 
  • Pamela Starr, Professor of Practice, University of Southern California
  • Amb. Tom Shannon, Senior International Policy Advisor, Arnold & Porter
  • Moderator:
    • Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Director, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies

Welcoming Cocktail

  • Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor, UC San Diego
  • Dinner / Video
  • Rafael Fernández de Castro, Director, USMEX and Aaron Feldman Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in U.S.-Mexican Studies in Memory of David Feldman
  • Amb. Jeffrey Davidow, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
  • Roberto Velasco, Chief Officer for North America, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Award presentation by

  • José Galicot, USMEX Board Member and Awardee 2022
  • Gastón Luken, USMEX Board Member and Awardee 2023

Awardee

  • Laura Diez Barroso, 2024 Jeffrey Davidow Good Neighbor Awardee
  • Carlos Laviada, 2024 Jeffrey Davidow Good Neighbor Awardee