Evaluating and Redefining Security in US-Mexico Relations

Please join us for the induction of Dr. Sergio Aguayo B’77, ’77, PhD ’85 into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. JHU leadership will briefly recognize Dr. Aguayo’s distinguished career. Dr. Aguayo will then participate in a moderated discussion on:

Evaluating and Redefining Security in US-Mexico Relations

Monday, October 15, 2018, 12:30-2:00pm

SAIS Kenney Auditorium, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 10.

Featuring:

Sergio Aguayo, Ph.D., Fellow, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Riordan Roett, Ph.D., Professor & Director Emeritus, Latin American Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University SAIS (moderator)

Sergio Aguayo, a noted scholar and political analyst, has been a professor and researcher at El Colegio de México since 1977. He has also taught at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University as the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and other institutions
 in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. He holds the highest membership level in Mexico's national researcher system, Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, and is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on national security, human rights, democracy, and Mexico's foreign relations. He is also a frequent writer for newspapers and magazines, most notably Mexico City's Reforma, where he contributes a weekly column, and he is a founding member of La Jornada newspaper. Since March 2001, he has been a regular participant in the weekly television program Primer Plano, and from 2009 to 2015, he was on Carmen Aristegui's Mesa Política radio program.

From 1990 to 1996, Dr. Aguayo was president of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos, and from 1994 to 1999 he was a leading member of Civic Alliance, one of Mexico's most prominent NGOs. He received a bachelor's degree in international relations from El Colegio de México and a doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins' Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he subsequently pursued a postdoctoral fellowship.