Denise Dresser

Denise Eugenia Dresser Guerra ( born January 22, 1963) is a Mexican political analyst, writer and university professor. Currently (2009) she is a member of the Faculty of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México ( ITAM ), where she teaches comparative politics, political economy, and Mexican politics since 1991.

Academic career

After completing her Bachelors in 1985 in El Colegio de México and her master's in political science in 1987 from Princeton University, she in 1994 gained a doctorate in politics. She has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of World Politics, the Center for International Studies at Princeton University and the Organization of American States. In 1993, she was "Junior Third World Scholar " by the International Studies Association.

She has taught at Georgetown University and at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Dresser is a Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studiuen at the University of California, San Diego, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Inter- American dialogue in Washington, DC, and a Fellow of the Salzburg seminar.

Work and performances

Dresser is the author of numerous publications on Mexican politics and US-Mexican relations, including " Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal problem: Mexico 's National Solidarity Program ", " Exporting Conflict: Transboundary Consequences of Mexican Politics ," " Treading Lightly and Without a Stick: International Actors and the promotion of Democracy in Mexico, "" Falling From the Tightrope: The Political Economy of the Mexican Crisis "and" Mexico: From PRI Predominance to Divided Democracy ".

She has published articles in the Journal of Democracy, Current History, the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics and Foreign Policy. She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the news weekly Proceso and was the host of the political talk show " Entre Versiones " in Mexican television. She was a political analyst in numerous radio and television programs, including " Mesa Política " with José Gutiérrez vivo and " El cristal con que se mira " with Víctor Trujillo.

Dresser is co-editor of the Los Angeles Times and has contributed to numerous articles in the New York Times and La Opinión of. She is also a frequent commentator on Mexican politics in the U.S. and Canadian media. She also worked as a consultant for the development program of the United Nations, the Barings Research and the Bank of Montreal. Dresser is a member of the Research Council of the "Forum for Democratic Studies ," the National Endowment for Democracy, the World Academy of Art and Science, the Advisory Board of Trans - National Research Corporation, the editors of the Latin American Research Review, the Advisory Board of the Commission on Human Rights, the Global Affairs Board Occidental College, the board of the General service Foundation and the Advisory Board of Fondo de Cultura Económica. She is a member of the Citizens Committee for the investigation of the so-called dirty war in Mexico and currently also on the board of the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City.

You edited a best-selling collection of essays prominent Mexican women entitled " Gritos y Susurros: experiencias intempestivas de mujeres 38 " and produced a TV documentary based on the book. Her most recent publication, in collaboration with the writer Jorge Volpi, is a book about political satire: " México: lo que todo ciudadano quisiera (no) saber de su patria ".

• Political scientist
• University teachers ( ITAM )
• Mexican
• Born in 1963
• Woman