The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security,military,and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House,it is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States,and composed of senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921,it is an independent and nonpartisan nonprofit organization. CFR is based in New York City,with an additional office in Washington,DC. Its membership has included senior politicians,numerous secretaries of state,CIA directors,bankers,lawyers,professors,corporate directors and CEOs,and senior media figures.
The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México,commonly known as ITAM,is a private university. It is one of Mexico's most important institutions of higher learning;highly prestigious in the social sciences. It is also considered one of Mexico's think tanks and has the highest rank of admission to the Mexican Foreign Service.
Carla Anderson Hills is an American lawyer and a public figure. A member of the Republican Party,she previously served as the 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977 and as the 10th United States Trade Representative under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. Hills was the first woman to hold each of those posts,the third woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet,and the first appointed to both cabinet and cabinet-rank positions.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who serves as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. It is consistently ranked the top graduate school for international relations in the world.
C. Fred Bergsten is an American economist,author,think tank entrepreneur,and policy adviser. He has served as assistant for international economic affairs to Henry Kissinger within the National Security Council and as assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He was the founding director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics,until 2006 the Institute for International Economics,which he established in 1981 and led through 2012. In addition to his academic work,he has been an influential public commentator and advisor to the American and global economic policy community,writing for influential periodicals such as Foreign Affairs magazine and by writing numerous books.
The North American Forum is an annual meeting of U.S.,Canadian and Mexican government and business representatives to discuss issues related to continental economic and social integration. The Forum is chaired jointly by former United States Secretary of State George Shultz,former Mexican Finance Minister Pedro Aspe,and former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed.
Emilio Tomás González is a Partner and Senior Advisor to the Executive Committee at Ducenta Squared Asset Management,a minority-owned and operated fixed income firm. Ducenta Squared offers traditional asset management capabilities with forward-looking investment solutions.
Arturo Sarukhán Casamitjana is a former ambassador of Mexico to the United States. A consultant and public speaker,he is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution,an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University,a distinguished visiting professor at the Annenberg School of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California,and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. He writes a biweekly column in Mexico City's El Universal newspaper and frequently publishes op-eds in U.S. media outlets. He also participates in a weekly Mexican television newscast on Milenio TV and a weekly radio segment on Enfoque Noticias.
Robert Alan Pastor was a member of the National Security Council staff and a writer on foreign affairs.
The Mexican Council on Foreign Relations was established the November 22,2001. So far,it is the only plural and multidisciplinary forum,focused in the debate and analysis of Mexico's role in the world and the growing influence of international events on the national agenda. The council is a civic association,nonprofit and independent of government. It is financed entirely by its members' contributions
Edward Lewis Morse is an American energy economist. He is currently the Global Head of Commodities Research at Citigroup in New York. From 1969 to 1975,he taught at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. From 1979 to 1981,Morse served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy. From 2006 to 2008,he was chief energy economist at Lehman Brothers,where he argued the oil price rises of 2007 and 2008 were an unsustainable bubble. He is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on international relations and energy topics. He was a co-founder of PFC Energy,a Washington-based energy consultancy group.
Lee Andrew Feinstein is an American policy-scholar,and former diplomat and senior official at the US Departments of State and Defense. Feinstein held senior positions on leading Democratic presidential campaigns in 2008. He served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 2009 to 2012,appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate. Feinstein is currently the inaugural dean at Indiana University's Lee H. Hamilton and Richard G. Lugar School of Global and International Studies. His nonpartisan scholarship has been recognized by leading Republicans and Democrats.
Andrés Conesa Labastida is the CEO of Mexican airline Aeroméxico.
Ian Joseph Brzezinski is an American foreign policy and military affairs expert.
Maurice Sonnenberg has served as an outside advisor to five Presidential Administrations in the areas of international trade,finance,international relations,intelligence,and foreign election monitoring.
María Isabel Studer Noguez is Director of Alianza University of California-Mexico. She was Director for Strategic Initiatives for Latin America and Executive Director for Mexico and Northern Central America of The Nature Conservancy. She was Director General for International Economic Cooperation at the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation,where she launched the Partnership for Sustainability with the aim of engaging the private sector in developing public-private projects around the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. For almost a decade,she was a professor and researcher in international relations at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education,principally working as the director of the Instituto Global para la Sostenibilidad (IGS),formerly the Centro de Diálogo y Análysis sobre América del Norte (CEDAN). She began her academic career working in international relations and has held positions in both Mexico and the United States teaching,researching,advising and writing on topics related to international relations,especially in North America,business and environmental issues. Her publications include books,scholarly articles as well as articles and columns for various media.
Jerrold D. Green is the president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles,California. He is concurrently a research professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Norma Bertha Pensado Moreno is a Mexican career diplomat,a member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1991. She currently serves as Ambassador of Mexico to Russia,and concurrently to Armenia and Belarus. She is the first woman to head the Mexican embassy in Russia.
