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Speaker Series with Carlos Pascual and Arturo Sarukhan

A conversation on the future of NAFTA and U.S.-Mexico relations

The Series features talks by distinguished scholars and policymakers with the goal of fostering discussions about successes and challenges in the field of poverty alleviation.

Event Details:

Monday, April 9, 2018
4:30pm - 6:00pm PDT

This event is open to:

Alumni/Friends
Faculty/Staff
General Public
Students

On April 9, the Stanford King Center on Global Development held a Speaker Series with Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual and Former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan, about the future of NAFTA and U.S.-Mexico relations. The talk was moderated by political scientist and Center faculty affiliate Alberto Díaz-Cayeros. The discussion centered around the unlikely scenario that NAFTA will be successfully renegotiated this year and the often ignored realities of trade relations between Mexico and the United States. This event was hosted jointly with the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies.

 

About the speaker:

Carlos Pascual

Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President of Global Energy, former senior U.S. diplomat and most recently the State Department’s top energy official, joined IHS in January 2015 as Senior Vice President to focus on global energy issues and international affairs. As the former U.S. Energy Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the State Department, Mr. Pascual established and directed the Energy Resources Bureau and served as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on energy issues. In that role, he led the negotiations on Iranian oil sanctions with China, India, and other countries.

Ambassador Pascual has held board positions in energy companies as well as energy and power-focused private investment firms. Mr. Pascual is also part of the GE Ecomagination Advisory Board and board member of the Atlantic Council. Ambassador Pascual holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Master of Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

About the speaker:

Arturo Sarukhan

Arturo Sarukhan is an international strategic consultant based in Washington, and the former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. (2007-2013). He is a Non Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the USC Annenberg Public Diplomacy School. He is a digital diplomacy pioneer, the first Ambassador accredited to the US to use Twitter in an official capacity. He writes regular columns for Univision Noticias and Mexico City’s El Universal newspaper, as well as opinion pieces in U.S. media.

A career diplomat, he received the rank of Career Ambassador in 2006. He served in the Mexican Foreign Ministry as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, Chief of Policy Planning, and Consul General to New York City, among other positions. In 2006, he joined the Presidential Campaign of Felipe Calderón as Foreign Policy Advisor and International Spokesperson. He then led the foreign policy Transition Team. He holds a BA in International Relations from El Colegio de México and an MA in U.S. Foreign Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow. Decorated by Spain and Sweden, he has received numerous awards and honorary degrees in recognition of his diplomatic achievements.

He sits on several boards, including the Americas Society, the Inter-American Dialogue, the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Immigration Forum, and the International Migration Initiative at OSF. He has been a Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a Pacific Leadership Fellow at UCSD. He was included in the List of Global Leaders of Monocle magazine, and was on the list of the 300 Most Influential Mexican Leaders for five years in a row.

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