PhD working title:

Approaching Mexico's foreign policy: Making sense of Mexico's place in the world.

Supervisors:

• Professor Juliet Kaarbo. 
• Professor Mark Aspinwall.

                                              SPS PG Representative (2020-2021)

Qualifications:

• MSc in International Relations (2014), University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Dissertation: “Mexico’s bilateral relation with the United States:
Opportunities and constraints for Mexican foreign policy from the year
2000 to 2012”.[Distinction mark obtained].

• Graduate Certificate on U.S.-Mexico border studies, Colegio de la Frontera Norte (2017).
   
• B.A. in International Relations (2012), Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.

Minor in International trade. Dissertation title: “The role of energy security in contemporary relations between Guatemala and Mexico seen from the Copenhagen school of security studies”.

Teaching experience:

(2015-17). Adjunct university lecturer for undergraduate-level students at Tecnologico de Monterrey, in Mexico. Courses lectured:

• Foreign Policy Analysis (2015).
• International Relations Seminar (2015).
• North American Regional Scenario (2015-16).
• Latin American Regional Scenario (2016).
• European Regional Scenario (2016).
• Middle East Regional Scenario (2016).
• Consular and diplomatic politics (2015-16).
• Economic globalization (2015-16).
• Economy and the State (2016).
• Development, Society and Citizenship in Mexico (2016-17).

Research experience:

• (2017) Field research coordinator for a team funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) to provide consultancy services to the Ministry of Education and Culture of Belize. Interviews, surveys and ethnographic methods were employed. I took part on the coding of the data gathered.

• (2015). Assistant researcher of a team funded by the Inter-American
  Development Bank (IADB) for the elaboration of a case study concerning the
  tentative replication of specialized STEM schools in the Dominican Republic. I took part on the field research which was carried out on the Hermanas Mirabal Province on the Dominican Republic from May to June. Surveys, interviews, questionnaires, focus groups were employed. I took part on the coding of data gathered.

• (2013). Assistant researcher for a project funded by the Clinton Global Initiative, evaluating the teaching of the English language to Mexican youngsters in the Mexican state of Puebla. I took part on the coding of the data gathered.
• (2012). Assistant Researcher for a research project of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) with the purpose of evaluating pedagogical practices in math and science in Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and Mexico. I took part on the coding of the data gathered.

Awards:

• CONACyT fellow (Mexico).
• City of Chihuahua (Mexico) outstanding youth award-1st place.
• State of Chihuahua (Mexico) outstanding youth award- 1st place. 

Publications:

• “Children and youth migrants in Mexico: State of research and public policy” Spanish Journal of Social Security and Employment. ISSN 2174-7504, Nº. 120, pp: 113-132.

• Montero-Sieburth, Martha & Loera, Omar. "Policy and Research of Returning Mexican and Stranded Central American Youth: The absence of pluricultural/intercultural educational practice in Mexico.” Journal of Intercultural Education.

Conferences:

• “Policy and research findings on youth of migrant descent in Mexico: A state of the art review”. ¨Presented at the South-North dialogues about child migration International seminar organized by the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. April 2015.

• “Institutional governance of the Mexican-U.S. border”, presented at the XXIV annual congress of the Mexican Association of International Studies. October 2015”.

Languages:

Spanish:  Native speaker.

English: Fluent.

Memberships:

Mexican Association of International Studies (AMEI).

South-North Dialogues on Children of Migrants (SOUNDS).