Ambassador Andrés Rozental
President
Mexican Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator: Future of Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities
Andrés Rozental is President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, (Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales), a non-profit “think tank” created in 2001 with the specific objective of providing a responsive institutional framework within which various sectors of Mexican society can contribute to a better understanding of how the global context influences Mexico, as well as what the country's role in the world arena should be.
The Council is an autonomous, non-political association, without government ties, that constitutes an open, plural and independent forum for analysis and dialogue in order to provide input into the decision-making process and the shaping of foreign policy.
Andrés Rozental was Mexico 's Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1995 to 1997. He has been a career diplomat for more than 30 years, having served his country as Deputy Foreign Minister (1988-1994), Ambassador to Sweden (1983-88), Permanent Representative of México to the United Nations in Geneva (1982-83), as well as in various responsabilities within the Mexican Foreign Ministry and abroad. Since 1994, he holds the rank of Eminent Ambassador of México.
In mid-1997, he took a leave of absence from government to establish Rozental & Asociados , an international consulting firm specialized in providing political and economic advisory services to both Mexican and foreign companies, as well as in assisting multinational enterprises with their Latin American corporate strategy. Currently, Ambassador Rozental holds non-executive Board positions in several important multinational corporations in Spain , the Netherlands , France , the United Kingdom and México.
Ambassador Rozental obtained his profesional degree in international relations from the Universidad de las Américas in México, and his Master's in International Economics from the University of Pennsylvania . He also did post gradute studies at the University of Bordeaux in France . He is a part-time profesor of international relations at the ITAM university and has been a member of the editorial board of the Reforma newspaper. He is the author of three books on Mexican foreign policy and of numerous articles on international affairs. Currently he is a member of the Board of Foreign Affairs en español and of the Universidad de las Américas, his alma mater. In June 2002, he was elected a member of the Board of the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and is also a Member of the Inter-American Dialogue.
From December 1, 2000 to 31 December, 2001 , Andrés Rozental served as Ambassador-at-large and special envoy for President Vicente Fox. On January 1, 2002 , he was elected President of the Council for the period 2002-2006.
