Jorge Montaño (Mexico)

Born in 1948. National of Mexico. Professor of International Organizations and Mexican Foreign Policy, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, private consultant on the enforcement of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Law and Political Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in International Affairs, London School of Economics.
Director General de Educación Superior - Secretaría de Educación Pública (1976-1979); Member of the Mexican Foreign Service (1979-2008); Director of International Agencies (1979-1982); Assistant Secretary of Multilateral Affairs (1982-1988); Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations organizations (1989-1992); Chairman of the Group of Experts to enhance the efficiency of the United Nations structure for drug abuse control (1990); Ambassador of Mexico to the United States (1993-1995); member of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism on drugs (2001-2003) of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD).
Author of the following publications: Partidos y política en América Latina; Implicaciones legales de la presencia de Estados Unidos en Viet Nam; Análisis del Sistema de Naciones Unidas; ACNUR en América Latina; Negociaciones del Tratado de Libre Comercio de America del Norte; Cooperación México-Estados Unidos en materia de narcotráfico; Debilidades de la certificación del Congreso de Estados Unidos; Retos de la frontera norte de México; Tráfico de armas en las fronteras mexicanas. Author of 50 articles published in specialized journals. Weekly contributor to the editorial pages of La Jornada, Reforma and El Universal. President and founding member of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica (formerly Foreign Affairs en Español). Founding President, Asesoría y Análisis, S.C., Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI).
Recipient of awards from the Governments of Chile, El Salvador, Greece and Guatemala. Participant in many meetings of organizations in the United Nations system, the Organization of American States and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. Member of the International Narcotics Control Board (2009).