Agenda 2025
May 12, 2025
May 13, 2025
May 14, 2025
- Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor, UC San Diego
- Caroline Freund, Dean, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
- Rafael Fernández de Castro, Director, USMEX and Aaron Feldman Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in U.S.-Mexican Studies in Memory of David Feldman
- Caroline Freund, Dean, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
- Santiago García, Chancellor Mexico City, Universidad Panamericana
- Leonardo Lomelí, Chancellor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Rafael Fernández de Castro, Director, USMEX and Aaron Feldman Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in U.S.-Mexican Studies in Memory of David Feldman
- Barbara F. Walter, Professor, Rohr Chair in Pacific International Relations, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
- Steve Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University- virtual
- Moderator:
- Javier Tello, Journalist and Political Analyst
- Betsy Fischer Martin, Board Director, International Women’s Forum
- Anne McLellan, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- Lorenza Martinez Trigueros, Chief Operating Officer, Intercam Mexico
- Moderator:
- Alicia Kerber, Consul General of Mexico in San Diego
- Emilio Cadena, Chief Executive Officer, PRODENSA
- Caroline Freund, Dean, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
- Meredith Lilly, Associate Professor and Simon Reisman Chair in International Economic Policy, Carleton University
- Michael Camuñez, President and CEO, Monarch Global Strategies
- Moderator:
- Claudia Ruiz Massieu, Mexican Congresswoman and Former Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Amb. Reyna Torres, Consul General of Mexico in Chicago
- Dara Lind, Senior Fellow, American Immigration Council
- Andrew Selee, President, Migration Policy
- Moderator:
- Roberto Velasco, Chief Officer for North America, Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- José Antonio Meade Kuribreña. USMEX Board Chair
- Jesse Discroll, Professor, Chair, Global Leadership Institute, UC San Diego Department of Social Science
- Peter Cowhey, Board Chair, California Council on Science and Technology, Dean Emeritus and Qualcomm Professor of Communication and Technology Policy Emeritus, Senior Fellow, Peter F. Cowhey Center on Global Transformation, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
- Tom Shannon, Senior International Policy Advisor, Arnold & Porter
- Moderator:
- Ana Paula Ordorica, Journalist
- Tania Ortiz Mena, President, Sempra Infrastructure
- David Victor, Professor and Peter Cowhey Center on Global Transformation Chair in Innovation and Public Policy, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
- Moderator:
- Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President for Geopolitics & International Affairs S&P Global
- Antonio Villaraigosa, former Mayor of Los Angeles
- David Alvarez, Assemblymember 80th District
- Glenn Hamer, President and CEO, Texas Association of Business
- Maria S. Salinas, President and CEO, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
- Moderator:
- Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles
Awardee:
- Tania Ortiz Mena, President, Sempra Infrastructure
- Michelle Fridman, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism of Jalisco
- Julia Carabias, former Mexico’s Secretary of the Environment, Natural resources, and Fisheries
- Carlos Guaipatin, Private Sector Senior Specialist, Inter American Development Bank
- Moderator:
- Alejandro Robles, Director, NOS Noroeste Sustentable
- Adriana Reséndez Maldonado, Mexico Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC)
- Roberto Velasco, Chief Officer for North America, Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs- invited
- Exequiel Ezcurra, Professor of Ecology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of California Riverside
- Joaquin Ruiz, Dean, College of Science and Professor, Geochemistry, University of Arizona
- Octavio Aburto, Professor, UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Catalina Stern Forgach, Director of UNAM Center for Mexican Studies -Tucson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Moderator:
- Zinnya del Villar, Data and Technology Director, Data-Pop Alliance
- Judge Roberto S. Lasnik, United States Courthouse, Western District of Washington
- Celina Realuyo, Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University
- Alejandro Celorio, Senior International Counsel
- John Feeley, former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama
- Moderator:
- Eduardo Guerrero, Partner, Lantia Consultores
Farewell