Biografía

Jorge G. Castañeda nació en México en 1953.

Fue Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México y buscó ser candidato independiente a la Presidencia de la República.

Ha sido profesor en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, y actualmente es catedrático en la Universidad de Nueva York.

Es articulista de la Revista Nexos, El País y The New York Times; colaborador de Foro-Tv y CNN en Español,  analista y comentarista en diversos programas de radio y televisión.

Es miembro emérito de la Junta de Gobierno de Human Rights Watch, miembro de la American Academy of Arts and Science y de la American Philosophical Society.

Castañeda ha escrito más de veinte libros, entre ellos La Herencia, Un futuro para México, Regreso al futuro y Una Agenda para México con Héctor Aguilar Camín; El narco, la guerra fallida y Los saldos del narco. El fracaso de una guerra con Rubén Aguilar. Amarres perros, Sólo Así. Por una agenda ciudadana independiente, y su más reciente libro Estados Unidos: en la intimidad y en la distancia.

Jorge Castañeda was Foreign Minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003. He is a renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and prolific writer, with an interest in Mexican and Latin American politics, comparative politics and US-Mexican and U.S.-Latin American relations.

Born in Mexico City in 1953, Dr. Castañeda received a B. A. from Princeton University and a B. A. from Universite de Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), an M. A. from the École Pratique de Hautes Etudes, and his Ph. D. in Economic History from the University of Paris-I.

He taught at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) from 1978 through 2004, at Princeton University, and the University of California, Berkeley and (since 1997) at NYU. Jorge Castañeda was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1985-87) and was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant Recipient (1989-1991).

Jorge Castañeda has more than 15 books published in the United States and elsewhere. He is a regular columnist for Revista Nexos, the Spanish daily El País and The New York Times. In 1997, he was appointed Global Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at New York University. He is an Emeritus Member of Human Rights Watch. In April 2008, Castañeda was elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and International Member of the American Philosophical Society.