Daily Briefing - Thursday September 16, 2010

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Roderic Camp is the Philip McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont Mckenna College. He serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He is the author twenty-five books on Mexico, his most recent publications include Politics in Mexico, the Democratic Consolidation and Mexico’s Military on the Democratic Stage. 

George Grayson is a professor of comparative politics at the College of William and Mary. He has written more than twenty books and monographs, including The North American Free Trade Agreement: Regional Community and the New World Order, Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy, and Mexican Messiah: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. He is an associate scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and writes a weekly column for the Mexican magazine, Milenio Semanal. His newest book is, Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?

Manuel Suárez-Mier is Senior Economist at the Bank of America, and he writes a weekly column in Mexico City’s leading financial newspaper, El Economista. Prior to that, he was with CIDAC, Mexico’s leading independent think-tank and professor of economics at Mexican Autonomous Technological Institute, ITAM, where he conducted research on monetary and fiscal issues. Suárez-Mier spent five years in Washington D.C. as Minister for Economic Affairs at the Mexican Embassy in the U.S., and he was a visiting scholar at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Business in Washington D.C. More recently he represented the Attorney General of Mexico in the US when the Merida Initiative, a plan for both nations to jointly fight transnational criminal organizations, was negotiated and approved by the US Congress. Suárez-Mier has published widely on public finance, economic development and monetary policy. Most recently, he co-authored The Amero: A Proposal for the Monetary Union of North America.

Dr. Pamela K. Starr is Director of the US-Mexico Network at the University of Southern California, an associate professor in Public Diplomacy and the School of International Relations, and a university fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. Her research and writing focuses on two main topics: contemporary Mexico – its politics and policy-making, foreign policy, and relations with the United States – and the politics of economic policy-making across Latin America. She came to USC from the Eurasia Group, one of the world's leading global political risk advisory and consulting firms, where she was senior analyst responsible for Mexico. Prior to that, she spent eight years in Mexico as a professor of Latin American political economy at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), a private university in Mexico City.