R F C M.: Curriculum Vitae
R F C M.: Curriculum Vitae
R F C M.: Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Cataratas 60–2
Col. Ampliación Alpes
México, D.F., 01710
MEXICO
Tel. +52 (55) 5593.9519
E-Mail rfernandezdecastro@gmail.com
Current Position
2017 - Director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX),
University of California, San Diego
1991 – Present Professor at Department of International Studies,
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico, ITAM.
Teaching during the Spring semesters.
Professional Experience
Fall 2014 – Fall 2016 Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-US
Relations, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,
Syracuse University, teaching during the Fall semesters.
2011 - 2013 Project Director, UNDP Human Development Report for
Latin America 2013-2014, Citizen Security with a Human Face:
Diagnoses and Proposals for Latin America
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Jun. 2008 – Feb. 2011 Principal Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Mexico.
Sep. – Dec. 2008 Coordinator, Democracy and Foreign Policy Commission
President of Mexico.
Jul. 2007 – Jan. 2008 R. F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs,
Harvard University.
2004 - Present Founder and Co-director, U.S. - Mexico Futures Forum,
University of California, Berkeley and ITAM.
Sponsored by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
2003 - Present Founder and Board Chair of the Inter-American Studies
Center (CEPI) at ITAM, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
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2000 - 2008 Founder and editor, Chair, Board of Directors.
Foreign Affairs Latin America.
1998 - 1999 Visiting Senior Fellow, Brookings Inst., Washington, D.C.
Summers 1997 - 2007 Research Fellow at Carleton University, Canada; Georgetown
University, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington D.C.;
Migration Policy Institute, Washington D.C.; Universidad
Autónoma de Barcelona; University of California, Berkeley.
1990 – 1995 Career Officer, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1989 - 1990 Deputy Director, North America Desk
Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Education
Ph.D. Political Science, 1995.
Georgetown University.
Dissertation title: Cooperation in U.S.-Mexican Relations: An Emerging Process of
Institutionalization.
M.P. Aff., Public Policy, 1986.
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.
Thesis title: The Mexican Government's Influence on the Outcome of U.S. Legislation.
B.A. Social Sciences, 1981.
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM).
Thesis title: La Organización Burocrática del Gobierno de la Ciudad de México
(The Bureaucratic Organization of the Mexico City Government).
Awards and scholarships
2012 Governor General of Canada Medallion
for Extraordinary Contribution to Mexico-Canada Relations
2007 Public Service Award and Notable Alumnus
Lyndon B Johnson School, University of Texas at Austin.
1998 - 1999 Fulbright Scholarship for Brookings Institution Fellowship.
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1988 - 1989 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Scholarship and Georgetown University Fellowship.
1984 - 1986 University of Texas Armand Hammer Fellowship.
1984 - 1986 Fulbright Scholarship, Graduate Studies in the United States.
Selected Organizational Affiliations
2013 Coordinator, Agenda Council for Citizen Security in Latin America
World Economic Forum
2012 Member, Task Force on U.S.- Mexico Relations
The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands and the Woodrow
Wilson Center for Scholars.
2012 Member, Task Force on U.S. - Mexico Relations
Inter-American Dialogue.
2011 - Present Member
U.S. Global Agenda Council.
2009 - Present Member, Regional Council on Latin America
World Economic Forum.
2007 - Present Member, Advisory Board, Mexico Institute
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
2007 - 2008 Advisor to Mexico’s First Lady, Ms. Margarita Zavala, on
topics related to migrant youth.
2006 - 2008 Chair, Advisory Board
National Institute of Migration (INAMI).
2004 – 2005 Vice-President
Mexican International Studies Association (AMEI).
2003 - 2008 Member
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), UK
2002 - Present Member (Vice-President, 2002 - 2006)
Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI).
2001 - 2005 Member, Advisory Board
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National Population Council (CONAPO).
2000 - 2008 Member, Advisory Board
National Institute of Migration (INAMI).
1998 - Present Member
Mexican International Studies Association (AMEI).
1997 – Present Member
Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
1994 - Present Research Director
North American Committee, ITAM.
Selected Media
2016 – Present Special Contributor, Proceso Magazine
2016 – Present Weekly Commentary, Al Cierre
2014 – Present Bimonthly, Columnist, El Financiero.
2012 – Present Weekly Commentary, Primero Noticias con Carlos Loret de Mola.
2012 – 2016 Monthly Commentary, El Noticiero con Joaquín López Dóriga.
2006 – 2008 Bi-weekly columnist, Excelsior.
Jan. – Dec. 2002 Host “Sin fronteras”, TV show, Canal 22.
2001 – 2008 News commentator, Televisa, TV & Radio.
2001 – 2006 Bi-weekly columnist, Proceso Magazine.
2000 – 2005 Bi-weekly columnist, Reforma.
Selected Publications
Books
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Jorge I. Domínguez, Contemporary U.S. - Latin American
Relations. Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?, Boston, Mass.: Routledge Press,
2016.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Jorge I. Domínguez, Contemporary U.S. - Latin American
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Relations. Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?, Boston, Mass.: Routledge Press,
2010.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Jorge I. Domínguez, (Eds.), Contemporary U.S. - Latin
American Relations Series, Boston, Mass.: Routledge Press, 2010. (The series consist of nine
books written by Latin American and US authors).
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Jorge I. Domínguez, The United States and Mexico.
Between Partnership and Conflict, Second Edition, Boston, Mass.: Routledge Press, 2009.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Hazel Blackmore, (Eds.), ¿Qué es Estados Unidos?, México:
Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Rodolfo García Zamora, (Eds.), El Programa 3 x 1 para
Migrantes. ¿Primera Política Transnacional en México?, México: Miguel Ángel
Porrúa-ITAM, 2006.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Erika Ruiz Sandoval, (Eds.), La agenda internacional de
Mexico 2006-2012. México en el mundo, México: Editorial Ariel, 2006.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, Laurence Whitehead and Natalia Saltalamacchia, (Eds.), ¿Somos
especiales? Las relaciones de Mexico and Gran Bretaña con Estados Unidos: una visión
comparada, México: Porrúa, 2006.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, Alberto Ortega Venzor and Miguel Barrio Gonzáles, (Eds.),
Hacia la profundización de la integración económica de México, México: Ibergop-ITAM,
Porrúa, 2005.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, Antonio Ortiz Mena and Octavio Amorim Neto, (Eds.), Brasil
y México: encuentros y desencuentros, México: Foreign Affairs Ministry, 2005.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, (Co-ord.), En la frontera del imperio. México en el Mundo,
México: Ariel, 2003.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, (Co-ord.), Cambio y continuidad en la política exterior de
México. México en el Mundo 2002, México: Ariel, 2002.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, (Co-ord.), Los desafíos para México en 2001. México en el
Mundo, México: Ariel, ITAM, 2001.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Jorge I. Domínguez, The United States and Mexico.
Between Partnership and Conflict, Boston, Mass.: Routledge Press, 2001.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Jorge I. Domínguez, ¿Socios o Adversarios?
México-Estados Unidos Hoy, México: Océano, 2001.
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Rafael Fernández de Castro, (Co-ord.), U.S.-Mexico Binational Council: New Horizons in
U.S.-Mexico Relations, Washington, D.C.: CSIS Press, 2001.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Robert Pastor, (Eds.), El actor controvertido: el Congreso
de Estados Unidos y América del Norte, México: Miguel Ángel Porrúa-ITAM, 2001.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Beatriz Leycegui, (Eds.), ¿Socios Naturales? Cinco años del
Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, México: Miguel Ángel Porrúa-ITAM,
1999.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Robert Pastor, (Eds.), The U.S. Congress, The
Controversial Pivot of North America, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Claudia Franco, (Eds.), ¿Qué son los Estados Unidos?,
México: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Articles in Books
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Beatriz Leycegui, “Economic Statecraft through the Use of
Two-Level Games”, in R. Hutchins and J. Suri, editors, Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases
in Successful Diplomacy, Oxford: University Press, 2015.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “Decision Making in Mexican Foreign Policy”, in Jorge I.
Dominguez and Ana Covarrubias, editors, Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the
World, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London, 2015.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “How Scholars Can Contribute to Policymaking: Lessons from
Mexico”, in Abraham F. Lowenthal and Mariayno E. Bertucci, editors, Scholars,
Policymakers, & International Affairs. Finding Common Cause, John Hopkins University
Press, Baltimore, 2014.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Diego Cándano Laris, “China: una relación prioritaria para
México en el futuro inmediato”, in Enrique Dussel Peters, coordinator, Cuarenta años de la
relación entre México y China: acuerdos, desencuentros y futuro, México: UNAM, 2012.
José Miguel Cruz, Rafael Fernández de Castro and Gema Santamaría Balmaceda, “Political
Transition, Social Violence, and Gangs: Cases in Central America and Mexico”, in Cynthia J.
Arnson (Ed.), In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin
America, Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Rafael Fernández de Castro, “La reforma migratoria en Estados Unidos”, in Agustín
Escobar & Susan F. Martin, (Co-ords.), La gestión de la migración México – Estados
Unidos: Un enfoque binacional, México: INAMI – Ciesas, 2008.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “La institucionalización de la relación intergubernamental: una
forma de explicar la cooperación”, in Mónica Verea and Sidnew Weintraub,
(Co-ords.),Nueva agenda bilateral de la relación México-Estados Unidos, México: Fondo de
Cultura Económica, 2008.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “La diáspora mexicana: retos y oportunidades”, in Jorge
Alcocer V., (comp.), El voto de los mexicanos en el extranjero, México: Nuevo Horizonte
Editores, 2005.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “The operation of NAFTA and its impact on the bilateral
relation between Mexico and the United States”, in Sidney Weintraub, (Ed.) NAFTA’s
Impact on North America. The First Decade, Washington, D.C.: CSIS Press, 2004.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “La institucionalización de la relación intergubernamental: una
forma de explicar la cooperación”, in Mónica Verea and Sidney Weintraub (Coords.), Nueva
agenda bilateral de la relación México-Estados Unidos, México: Fondo de Cultura
Económica, 1998.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, Dahlia Stein, and William B.P. Robson, "Características del
Problema, Panorama General sobre Controversias Comerciales en América del Norte", in
Beatriz Leycegui, Dahlia Stein and William B.P. Robson, (Eds.), Comercio a golpes, las
prácticas desleales de comercio internacional bajo el TLCAN, México: Miguel Ángel
Porrúa-ITAM, 1997.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, "Perspectivas teóricas en los estudios de la relación
México-Estados Unidos," in Celia Toro y Olga Pellicer, (Eds.), Política Exterior de México,
Enfoques para su Análisis, México: El Colegio de México, 1997.
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Rafael Fernández de Castro, "Theoretical Considerations on U.S.-Mexico Cooperation:
NAFTA Parallel Agreements," in Charles Doran, (Ed.), A New North America, New York:
Prager, 1996.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, William B.P. Robson and S. Dahlia Stein, "What's the Fight
About? An Overview of Trade Disputes in North America," in Beatriz Leycegui, Dahlia
Stein and William B.P. Robson (Eds.), Trading Punches: Trade Remedy Law and Disputes
Under NAFTA, Washington, D.C.: National Planning Association, 1995.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, "La Política Exterior ante la Modernización Económica
Salinista," in Luis Rubio and Arturo Fernández, (Eds.), México a la Hora del Cambio,
México: Cal y Arena, 1995.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, "La industria siderúrgica mexicana ante el libre comercio en
América del Norte," in Georgina Kessel, (Ed.), Lo negociado del TLC: un análisis
económico sobre el impacto sectorial del Tratado Trilateral de Libre Comercio, México:
McGraw-Hill, 1994.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, "El impacto en el sector siderúrgico de la integración del
mercado norteamericano," in Eduardo Andere and Georgina Kessel, (Eds.), TLC Impacto
Sectorial, México: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
Articles
Enrique Desmond Arias, Rafael Fernández de Castro and Gema Santamaría Balmaceda,
“Violencia en México: Mejor samba que cumbia,” Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, vol. 13,
number 1, January 2013.
Rafael Fernández de Castro and Michael Layton, “An Opportunity for Mexico’s New
President, Enrique Peña Nieto,” Americas Quarterly, November 2012.
José Miguel Cruz, Rafael Fernández de Castro, and Gema Santamaría Balmaceda, “Political
Transition, Social Violence, and Gangs: Cases in Central America and Mexico,” in Cynthia J.
Arnson In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin
America, Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Stanford University Press, 2012.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “Transmigration in Mexico,” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin
America, Winter 2012.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “Demystifying the Maras,” co-author, Americas Quarterly, Fall
2007.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “Seguridad y migración: un nuevo paradigm,” Foreign Affairs en
Español, vol. 6, number 4, October-December 2006.
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Rafael Fernández de Castro and Ana Paula Ordorica, “¿Adiós al laissez-faire migratorio?”
Nexos, May 2006.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “Hands across North America,” co-author, New York Times,
March 2005.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “La reelección de Bush: oportunidad para reactivar las
relaciones,” Foreign Affairs en Español, vol. 5, number 1, January-March 2005.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “L’adhésion du Mexique á la position de la France: nécessité,
affinités et ingénuité,” La revue internationale et stratégique, number 53, Summer, 2004.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, “Entre la excepción y el compromiso: Bush ante América
Latina,” Foreign Affairs en Español, vol. 1, number 1, Fall-Winter 2001.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, "The Mexican Government's Position on Migration: From
Non-Engagement to an Active Search for a New Understanding. Is it Worth it?" Immigration
in U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1999.
Rafael Fernández de Castro, "La importancia del Congreso estadounidense en la relación
bilateral México-EUA," Cuadernos Semestrales del CIDE, 1987.