Agenda 2024
Monday April 29, 2024
Tuesday April 30, 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
- 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
- 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
- David Victor, Professor and Peter Cowhey Center on Global Transformation Chair in
- 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
- Arturo Cherbowski, General Director, Universia
- Fernando León, President, CETYS
- William Lee, Coordinator of International Relations and Affairs, UNAM
- Santiago García Álvarez, Chancellor Mexico City, Universidad Panamericana
- Moderator:
- Tamara Cunningham, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Global Initiatives, UC San Diego
- Luz María de la Mora, Non-resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
- Richard Kiy, President, Institute of the Americas
- Meredith Lilly, Associate Professor and Simon Reisman Chair in International Economic Policy, Carleton University
- Moderator:
- Caroline Freund, Dean, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Refreshment Break
- Celina Realuyo, Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
- John Feeley, Executive Director, Center for Media Integrity of the Americas; Former U.S. Ambassador to Panama
- David Shirk, Professor, Political Science and International Relations, University of San Diego
- Sandra Ley, Coordinator of the Security Program, Mexico Evalúa
- Moderator:
- Cecilia Farfan, Senior Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
- Kathleen Bruhn, Professor Political Science, UC Santa Barbara
- Diana Alarcón González, Chief Advisor and International Affairs Coordinator for Claudia Sheinbaum
- Leonardo Curzio, Researcher, CISAN-UNAM
- Javier Tello, Political Analyst
- Moderator:
- Catheryn Camacho, Associate Director, UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Light Lunch