Manatt–Phelps Lecture in Political Science
Luis Ernesto Derbez
Monday, 03 Nov 2003 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Luis Ernesto Derbez is the Foreign Minister of Mexico. He was Mexico's Economic Minister before assuming his current position. He worked for the World Bank for fourteen years, where he was responsible for the regional areas of Chile, Western and Central Africa, India, Nepal and Bhutan, among others. While with the World Bank he directed, structured, implemented and supervised Multilateral Economic Assistance and Structural Adjustment Programs in Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala. He also worked as an independent consultant for the World Bank Mexico City Office and for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. He has worked on economic recovery programs for Honduras and Nicaragua, after Hurricane Mitch destroyed a substantial part of their territory and economy. He was a professor in the Graduate School of Business Management of ITESM in Monterrey, Nuevo León; a guest professor at Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies; director of the ITESM Econometric Studies Unit and Economics Department in Monterrey; and Academic Vice Rector of the University of the Americas in Cholula, Puebla. He received a doctorate in Economics from Iowa State University. Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science.Part of the World Affairs Series: Outside Looking in: International Perspective on U.S. Foreign Policy.
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