Mexican Council on Foreign Relations

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Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs A.C. (COMEXI)
FoundedNovember 22, 2001;21 years ago (2001-11-22)
Headquarters Mexico City, Mexico
Key people
  • Luis Rubio
    President
  • Mariana Campero
    Director General
Website COMEXI

The Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI; Spanish: Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales) 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

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Objectives

Board

The President of the board of directors is Luis Rubio. Former presidents include Fernando Solana, Andrés Rozental and Jaime Zabludovsky.

Members

COMEXI has among its members more than 450 personalities from various sectors and ideologies through the Ordinary Program and its three special programs: Corporate Program, aimed to leading companies; the Institutional Program, which gathers Foreign Embassies in Mexico, international organizations with offices in our country, as well as, research and teaching centers; and the Term-Member Program, created to support the development of future leaders.

Corporate members

CitibanamexMicrosoft
ChubbGrupo Televisa
ExxonMobilTenaris Tamsa
FEMSAZimat

Institutional members

Embassy of the United StatesDelegation of Quebec
Embassy of CanadaEmbassy of Australia
Embassy of South AfricaEmbassy of Finland
Delegation of the European UnionIberoamericana University
Real Embassy of NorwayEmbassy of Japan
Embassy of FranceEmbassy of India
El Colegio de México, A.C.Embassy of the Turkish Republic
Embassy of New ZealandEmbassy of Switzerland
Anáhuac University México NorteCenter of Research on North America (CISAN-UNAM)
Embassy of IrelandEmbassy of the People's Republic of China
Embassy of BrazilEmbassy of Sweden
Embassy of ArgentinaInstituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
General Coordination on Foreign Affairs and Parliamentary Relations of the SenateOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Embassy of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandEmbassy of Morocco Kingdom
Embassy of IsraelNational Institute of Public Administration (INAP)

Activities

COMEXI has authored unpublished materials, such as the biannual survey of opinion "Mexico and the World", prepared jointly with the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). Additionally, it published a collection of papers of the Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs which addressed important issues of international affairs.

An additional facet of the council's objectives is to participate at conferences, study groups or workshops on topics relevant to Mexico and its international partners. It has partnerships with the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Council of the Americas, the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in the United States and six Latin American Councils (Argentine Council for International Affairs, the Conselho Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais, the Chilean Council for International Affairs, the Uruguayan Council for Foreign Relations, the Paraguayan Center for International Studies and the Peruvian Center for International Relations). Additionally COMEXI signed a memorandum of understanding with the Institute Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and the Indian Council of World Affairs.

Since 2003, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars [1] and COMEXI instituted Stays Academic Program for Research in Public Policy for researchers on issues of bilateral relations Mexico-United States. Through this, each year about three specialists conducted research at the headquarters of the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

As of September 20,2013, the council has been featured in radio programs and television analysis, in addition to more than 30 Members in the Press who publish in print media daily basis. The level of Associates and its deliberations in an informal and open, has increasingly become a forum to COMEXI meeting required for individuals who visit the country.

Information Center

COMEXI's web site give to any who interested in the global agenda, the opportunity to explore special articles that are product of the research made by the Council in the most important organizations around the globe. The center is divided in two categories: regional and thematic.

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References

  1. "Wilson Center, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations Launch Joint Scholars' Program on U.S.-Mexico Relations". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2008-12-30. Public relations statement from the Wilson Center