José Cuervo Tequila Talk: Challenges and opportunities in the Mexico-China economic relationship

November 6, 2008 - 6:30 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Institute of the Americas
Weaver Conference Center, UCSD campus
Presentation will be in English
Free to the public but please register

Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters is Mexico’s preeminent scholar on the economic relationship between Mexico and China. Since 2003, China has ranked as Mexico’s second-largest trading partner after the United States. As director of the Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Dr. Dussel leads a team of Mexican scholars who study and report on Mexico-China economic trends. Dr. Dussel is a professor at UNAM’s Graduate School of Economics and coordinates the area of political economy. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of  Notre Dame and his M.A. and B.A. degrees in political science from the Free University of Berlin. His Tequila Talk is part of a regional visit that takes him to the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) on November 7. For more information on the COLEF seminar, click here