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Speakers 2025

Adriana Reséndez

Adriana Reséndez Maldonado

Mexico Commissioner
International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC)
Alejandro Robles

Alejandro Robles

Director
NOS Noroeste Sustentable
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Alicia Kerber

Consul General
Consulate General Mexico in San Diego
Andrew Selee

Andrew Selee

President
Migration Policy Institute
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Anne McLellan

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
Antonio Villaraigosa

Antonio Villaraigosa

Former LA Mayor
barry

Barry Naughton

Board Director
International Women's Forum
BEtsy

Betsy Fischer Martin

Board Director
International Women's Forum
carlos gonzalez

Carlos González Gutiérrez

Consul General
Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles
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Carlos Guaipatin

Senior specialist in Science and Technology
Inter-American Development Bank
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Carlos Pascual

Senior Vice President
Geopolitics & International Affairs S&P Global
Caroline Freund

Caroline Freund

Dean, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Celina Realuyo

Celina Realuyo

Professor of Practice
William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University
Claudia Ruiz Massieu

Claudia Ruiz Massieu

Mexican Congresswoman
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
dara lind

Dara Lind

Senior Fellow
American Immigration Council
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David Alvarez

Assemblymember 80th District
David Victor

David Victor

Professor
UC San Diego School of Global Policy
Elizabeth Simmons

Elizabeth Simmons

Vice Chancellor
UC San Diego
emilio cadena

Emilio Cadena

Chief Executive Officer
PRODENSA
Exequiel Ezcurra

Exequiel Ezcurra

Professor of Ecology
Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Riverside
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Glenn Hamer

President and CEO
Texas Association of Business
Javier Tello

Javier Tello

Political Analyst
Jeffrey Davidow (Amb)

Jeffrey Davidow

Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Jesse Discroll

Jesse Discroll

Professor, Chair, Global Leadership Institute, UC San Diego Department of Political Science
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Joaquín Ruiz

Dean
College of Science and Professor, Geochemistry, University of Arizona
John Feeley

John Feeley

Former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama
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José Antonio Meade Kuribreña

USMEX Board Chair
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Juan Carlos Baker

Resident Fellow
Georgetown Americas Institute
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Julia Carabias

Mexico's Secretary of the Environment, Natural
resources and Fisheries
Lorenza Martinez

Lorenza Martinez Trigueros

Chief Operating Officer
Intercam Mexico
Maria s salinas

Maria S. Salinas

President & CEO
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
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Marina Robles

Undersecretary of Environmental Policy and Natural Resources
SEMARNAT
Meredith Lilly

Meredith Lilly

Professor
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
Michael Camuñez

Michael Camuñez

President and CEO
Monarch Global Strategies LLC
Michelle Fridman

Michelle Fridman

Secretary
Ministry of Tourism of Jalisco
Octavio Aburto

Octavio Aburto

Professor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Peter Cowhey

Peter Cowhey

Board Chair
California Council on Science and Technology
UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Pradeep Khosla

Pradeep Khosla

Chancellor
UC San Diego
Rafael Fernandez de Castro

Rafael Fernández de Castro

Director, USMEX and Aaron Feldman Family Chancellor's Endowed Chair in U.S.-Mexican Studies
reyna torres

Reyna Torres

Consul General
Consulate General of Mexico in Chicago
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Santiago García

Chancellor Mexico City
Universidad Panamericana
Tania Ortiz Mena

Tania Ortíz Mena

President
Sempra Infrastructure

USMEX Forum Awardee 2025

Tom Shannon

Tom Shannon

Senior International Policy Advisor
Arnold & Porter