MANUEL SÁNCHEZ

 

Manuel Sánchez is a Member of the Governing Board and Vice Governor at the Bank of Mexico, Mexico’s central bank. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of Investment at Valanza México, the private equity unit of BBVA. He joined Bancomer Financial Group, now BBVA Bancomer Financial Group, in 1993 as Director of Financial Analysis and Investor Relations. During 1995-97 he was Director of Planning and Finance at the group’s Service Banking Division. Afterwards and until 2004, he was the group’s Chief Economist.

 

Previously, Sánchez was Director General of the Center for Economic Analysis and Research (CAIE) at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico City (ITAM.) He was professor of economics there and has also taught economics at several Mexican and American universities, including Boston College and the University of Chicago.

 

He is the author of numerous articles published in books, professional journals, and magazines. He led research for and was the editor of the book Privatization in Latin America, published in 1993, with contributions by research centers from Chile, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. He is the author of the book Economía Mexicana para Desencantados, published in 2006. He has written op-ed articles for several newspapers and a popular column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma.

 

He has been a consultant for several corporations and international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. Previous posts include chief economist for Vitro Group and economist for the Industrial Alfa Group, both based in Monterrey, Mexico.

 

Manuel Sánchez holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

DAVID AYON

 

David R. Ayón is U.S. Director of the binational Focus Mexico/Enfoque México project at LCSLA. This project, in collaboration with three other universities, studies the political relationships of leaders of Mexican origin in the United States with Mexico. This study is the first of a planned series of projects at the Center as a “global city-region” and its reciprocal relations with the world.

Ayón is a Senior Advisor to the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and formerly associate director of the California-Mexico Project at the USC School of International Relations. He is a contributor to books and publications including The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Foreign Affairs Latino América (which he also serves on its editorial board), México en el Mundo,The American Prospect, and has contributed numerous essays to the op-ed and Sunday Opinion pages of The Los Angeles Times since 1983, when he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies of University of California, San Diego.

Educated at Princeton, Stanford, and El Colegio de Mexico, Ayón has taught courses on politics and U.S.-Latin American relations at six colleges and universities, including two campuses of the University of California, Stanford, University of Southern California, and Loyola Marymount University. Ayón has also worked as analyst, consultant, and special producer for Spanish language television news during nine electoral cycles in the U.S. and three in Mexico since 1992.

Recent Publications

Migrants and the State: 1986–2006,”Mexico’s Democratic Challenges: Politics, Government and Society. Andrew Selee and Jacqueline Peschard, editors (forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2010).

EDUARDO MENDOZA COTA, PhD

 

Doctor in Economy, Professor, Researcher from the Economical Department of the COLEF Research Department of Economic Regional Growth, Economic Integration between US and Mexico. (confirmed)

 

Jorge Eduardo Mendoza obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Utah where he specialized in industrial organization and international economics. He is a full time researcher in the Economic Studies Department at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (EL COLEF). Dr. Mendoza has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in regional economics, Latin American economic problems, North American economic integration, and labor economics in both EL COLEF and San Diego State University. He has been the Director of Economic Studies in EL COLEF and Coordinator of the masters program in Applied Economics at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and Coordinator of the masters program in Regional Economics in the Center of Socioeconomic Research in the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila.

 

Dr. Mendoza has published articles in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe on the economic impacts of the U.S. - Mexican economic integration on the Mexican economy and other economic issues related to the northern border region of Mexico. He has coordinated projects for CONACyT, OECD and SCERP, and El Consejo Económico de Tijuana (CDT). He has been a member of the Technical Committee for the Inter-institutional Program for Studies of the North American Region (PIERAN), the Evaluation Committee of basic Science Projects of CONACyT, and the Federal Electoral Institute Evaluation Committee of Social Organization (IFE).

ROGER TORNEDEN

 

Roger Torneden is Director of Business, Management and Legal Programs for UCLA Extension. He is also a Certified Financial Planner® and international economics professional registered with the National Futures Association. Torneden is a New York University Stern School graduate with a Ph.D. in International Business who developed international finance trading skills after winning a national commodity trading contest in 1982 with a trading focus on currencies, interest rates and precious metals. In 2009, Torneden addressed the NeXus Law Journal Symposium, “The 80th Anniversary of the Great Crash of 1929”, and in 2010, addressed the Chapman School of Law Symposium on subjects related to the unintended consequences of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Previously, Torneden held senior management positions in the private sector including Chief Executive Office of Near North Entertainment, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for American International Underwriters (AIU), Senior Vice President of TIG Group (financial services), and Director of International Development for JCPenney.

 

He is the author of Foreign Disinvestment by U.S. Multinational Corporations (published by Praeger Publishers) and has contributed to numerous public and private international finance newsletters.

 

Torneden’s UCLA Extension responsibilities include oversight, management and development of all programs, courses and instructors relating to certificates in International Trade, Finance, Taxation, Accounting, Marketing, Law, and Human Resources, among others.

OCTAVIO AUGUSTO PESCADOR

 

Dr. Octavio Pescador is Coordinator for the UCLA International Institute and Founding Research Associate at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Dr. Pescador obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UCLA, a Master of Arts in International Development Education from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Comparative Education from UCLA. Dr. Pescador has been engaged with immigrant communities in various capacities since he arrived to Los Angeles over two decades ago. He has worked extensively with Latino students and immigrant groups in both formal and popular education settings as an instructor, mentor and advocate. Over the last decade, Dr. Pescador has taught social science courses in domestic and international institutions and participated as an education and political analyst in print and electronic media. He has served as academic advisor for multiple organizations including Academia Semillas del Pueblo, Chicano Youth Leadership Conferences, Families in Schools, Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, Larchmont Charter School and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In 2009, Dr. Pescador was appointed by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block to serve on the Governing Council of the K-12 UCLA Community School—one the Robert F. Kennedy community schools.