Jorge Castañeda

Foreign Minister of Mexico, Professor of New York University

Born in Mexico in 1953, Jorge Castañeda is a former Secretary of Foreign Affairs and sought to be an independent candidate for Mexico’s Presidential Office. He has been a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and is currently a professor at the University of New York and Science Po in Paris. He is a columnist for the magazine Nexos, of the El Universal newspaper; a contributor to Foro TV and CNN, Also, an analyst and commentator on various radio and television programs.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the American Philosophical Society, and a former member of the Board of Governors of Human Rights Watch, Castañeda has written more than twenty books, including The Disarmed Utopia; The Inheritance; A Future for Mexico, with Héctor Aguilar Camín; The Drug Trafficker, the Failed War, with Rubén Aguilar; “Amarres perros”; United States: Intimacy and Distance.

His most recent book is The Two Lefts: What Was Never Said About the Mexican Left, with Joel Ortega.