Susana Catalina Chacón Domínguez

Susana Catalina Chacón Domínguez is a professor and researcher with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Tec de Monterrey). Her work has been recognized with Level II membership in Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores as well as membership in the Club of Rome.

Chacón Domínguez received her bachelors in international relations from the Universidad Iberoamericana, followed by a masters in public administration from Harvard University, a masters in economics and international studies from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City and a doctorate in history from Universidad Iberoamericana. She also did post doctoral work in international relations with Georgetown University and the University of Barcelona.[1][2]

In 1990, she was a research assistant at the Instituto de Estudios de los Estados Unidos, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE).[3] Since then, she has had a number of teaching and research positions, but most of her career has been tied with the Tec de Monterrey, Santa Fe campus, where she began as a full-time researcher and professor in international relations starting in 1999.[3] Chacón Domínguez is currently the director of research and development at the Santa Fe campus, along with her teaching duties.[2][4]

Her other positions includes stints as a visiting professor and researcher in institutions such as the Instituto Matías Romero de Estudio Diplomáticos (part of the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores)(1999),[1] the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard (1999, 2000), the Colegio de México (2002) and Georgetown University (2004),[2][3] In 2008, she worked for a time at a full-time research professor in international relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana, coordinating the bachelors in the field before returning to Tec de Monterrey. She still teaches courses there.[3]

Her specialties include energy and sustainability in North America, Mexican foreign policy, conflict negotiation and resolution, security, and international relations theory,[1] and has written extensively about the formulation of Mexican foreign policy and U.S.-Mexican relations as well as contributed to books on international affairs.[2]

Chacón Domínguez has written regularly for the El Universal newspaper since 2008, and is the editor in chief of the Mexican edition of Foreign Policy magazine.[1]

In 2002, Chacón Domínguez was admitted as a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, achieving Level II membership for her work. Since 2000, she has been the general secretary of the Mexican chapter of the Club of Rome.[2][3][5]