On Friday 10 May, Professor Ernesto Zedillo will give a public lecture at the Blavatnik School of Government entitled 'Latin America: Taking Off or Still Falling Behind?'. The lecture will take place in the School's Lecture Theatre from 5-6.30pm.

Professor Zedillo was the President of Mexico from 1994-2000 and is one of the School's Distinguished Practitioners. Now Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, he serves on a number of commissions and boards of international organisations, including the Natural Resource Charter; the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security; the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; and the G30, among others.


He has also served on several international commissions in the past, such as the Global Development Network; the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament; the Partnership of the Americas; the Commission on Drugs and Democracy; and the High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.

Before his election to the office of President, he served in the Central Bank of Mexico, as Undersecretary of Budget, as Secretary of Economic Programming and the Budget, and as Secretary of Education. He was also a professor at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, where he earned his bachelors degree, and at El Colegio de Mexico. He has an MA and PhD from Yale University.

Read more about Professor Zedillo here.


Places for the lecture are strictly limited and must be booked in advance. Please RSVP to events@bsg.ox.ac.uk to attend. All emails will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.