Nationality: Mexican Telephone: Mexico City 5727 9830, 5727 9862, and 5727 9800 ext. 2223 Fax: Mexico City 5727 9872 E-mail:antonio.ortiz@cide.edu
Bio: Academic
* Bachelor Degree in Political Sociology (UAM-Azcapotzalco) 1986 * Master of Arts in Area Studies, Major in Economics of Latin American Development (University of London: London School of Economics and Political Science-University College London-Institute of Latin American Studies) 1987 * Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Major in International Political Economy (University of California, San Diego) 2001. Ph. D. dissertation: "The Politics of Institutional Choice: International Trade and Dispute Settlement." Fulbright Scholarship 1993-1997. Dissertation committee: Prof. Stephan Haggard, Prof. Miles Kahler, Prof David A. Lake, Prof. Peter H. Smith
Recent Publications
* "?Importa el Tipo de Democracia? El Caso de la Democracia de Consenso y la Distribucin del Ingreso." Poltica y Gobierno Vol. VII, No. 1, First Semester 2000. * "The Political Economy of Regionalism: Current Theorizing and Preliminary Observations on the G-3 FTA." CIDE-DTEI Working Paper 56-2000. * "The Institutional Structure of Financial and Monetary Integration in the Americas." CIDE-DTEI Working Paper 73-2000 (coauthored with Susan Minushkin). * "Apertura Comercial y Reforma Institucional en Mxico (1988-2000): Un Anlisis Comparado del TLCAN y el TLCUE". Foro Internacional, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October-December 2001 (coauthored with Jorge Schiavon). * "La Solucin de Controversias en el Tratado de Libre Comercio de Amrica del Norte: Un Esbozo Sobre su Desempe?o y Retos," Institut fr Iberoamerika-Kunde (IIK)-Hamburg Working Paper, 2002. * "Dispute Settlement in NAFTA: The Challenges Ahead," in Peter H. Smith and Edward J. Chambers (eds), NAFTA in the New Millennium, University of Alberta Press-University of California Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 2002. * "Mexico: A Regional Player in Multilateral Trade Negotiations," in Miguel Lengyel and Vivianne Ventura Dias (eds), Trade Policy Reform in Latin America, Palgrave U.K. (forthcoming 2003).
* "The Political Economy of Mexico's Trade Policy," in Vinod Aggarwal, Joseph Tulchin and Ralph Espach (eds), Regionalism and Transregionalism in Latin America Stanford University Press-The Woodrow Wilson International Center (forthcoming 2003). * "Mexico in the Multilateral Trading System," chapter for the collection The Kluwer Companion to the World Trade Organization, to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Editor-in-Chief: Patrick F. J. Macrory (forthcoming 2003).
Work Experience
* Mexican Budget and Programming Ministry (SPP), 1987-1988. Advisor to the Deputy Minister for Social and Regional Development and co-coordinator of the UNICEF-SPP research project on the social costs of the macroeconomic economic adjustment program in Mexico 1982-1988. * Mexican Fisheries Ministry (SEPESCA), 1989-1991. Advisor to the Minister. Participated in domestic issues (privatization and deregulation of the fisheries sector and relations with fishing cooperatives) and international issues (Mexico-US relations and the tuna embargo). * Mexican Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development (SECOFI), NAFTA Negotiation Office, 1991-1993. Director of Relations with Congress and State Governments; member of NAFTA translation team. * CIDE, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (http://www.cide.edu/), 1999-present. Chair, International Studies Department. Researcher and Professor of International Political Economy. Research areas: the politics of trade policy of Latin American countries, international institutions and the management of economic relations. Courses taught: Latin America: Economy, Politics, and Society, Introduction to International Relations, International Political Economy, Regional Economic Integration.
Additional Information
* Member, Coordinating Committee, Research Network on Trade in the Americas, http://www.netamericas.net/ * Member, Steering Committee, Latin American Trade Network, www.latn.org.ar/indexi.html * Member, International Studies Association * Frequent commentator on trade policy issues (television, radio, and printed press).
