Teresa Alonso-Rasgado

From 2010 to 2018 Alonso-Rasgado was the Honorary Representative of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico.[10] She was Director of the Latin American Postgraduate Programme (LAPP) at the University of Manchester, which has partnerships in Latin America, North America and the Caribbean.[11][12] She ran a series of activities that brought together academics, scientists, students and centre directors from Mexico and the United Kingdom.[13][14] She was awarded the Ohtli Award for her efforts to promote academic exchange between the United Kingdom and Mexico.[15][16] At the time, Alonso-Rasgado was a Professor at the University of Manchester, which had the highest number of Mexican postgraduate students in the world.[15][17][18] She developed scholarship schemes in collaboration with the Organization of American States to support scientists and engineers starting their PhD programmes in the United Kingdom.[19] In 2019 Alonso-Rasgado was awarded the Lázaro Cárdenas medal for academic excellence.[20]

In 2019 Alonso-Rasgado was appointed Dean for Global Engagement at Queen Mary University of London.[21] She has continued her diplomacy work with Mexico, working with the Citibanamex Youth of Excellence program to develop an eight week English language course to prepare Mexican scientists for their postgraduate studies in London.[22][23]