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An International Affairs scholar specializing in Europe, Dr. Aguirre is a professor of Political Systems and Contemporary Governments at Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana. Elecciones y política en Francia: de Charles de Gaulle a Jacques Chirac; Ocho en la Cumbre; La alternativa socialdemócrata and Historia mundial de la megalomanía figure among the books he has authored.

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Of Spanish origin, most of Mr. Bello’s career has taken place in Mexico, where he has contributed to newspapers, magazines, websites, radio and television. He has headed CNN Mexico, Expansión, Medio Tiempo and ADNPolítico among other media outlets. He is currently editor-in-chief for Grupo Expansión and launched Expansión Política in 2019. He is a contributor to the book Amos de México.

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A professor of Contemporary History at Warsaw University, Dr. Borodziej chairs the Academic Committee of Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena. Since 2003 he has served as editor-in-chief of the Polish Diplomatic Documents (Polskie Dokumenty Dyplomatyczne) series, published by the Polish Institute of International Affairs (24 volumes). He also chairs the Academic Committee of the House of European History in Brussels.

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Also known as “El Mijis”, Mr. Carrizales is a local congressman to the legislature of San Luis Potosí, the Mexican state from where he hails. In his youth, he knew domestic violence as well as street and gang life. After a lengthy period devoted to community work, he ran on the Partido del Trabajo (Labor Party) ticket, an organization from which he has recently resigned.

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Mr. de la O holds degrees in both Public Administration (from Harvard) as well as Strategic Management and Development Politics. He is currently a consultant for UNESCO and has worked for the UNDP and the World Bank. He has headed the Public Opinion Center as well as the Planning area of the Science Divulgation Department at Mexico's National Autonomous University, where he has held a professorship for 7 years.

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An associate researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, Dr. Gook is the author of Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders: Re-Unified Germany After 1989. His work partakes of sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, literary studies and film studies.

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A professor of Late Modern European History at the University of California at Berkeley, he has authored several books on post-Enlightenment sociability and social thought, as well as a recent history of human rights. Raised in East Berlin, he participated in the protest movement that brought on the downfall of the Wall in 1989.

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An American of Jewish descent who has settled in Mexico, his book Las llaves de la ciudad was originally written in Spanish, his second language, it is a collection of chronicles of Mexico City. His novel Circunstancias atenuantes, partakes of his experience as a specialist in mitigation: a researcher who works for lawyers defending Mexican illegal migrants accused of murder and facing the death penalty.

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A researcher at the Law Studies division of Mexico’s Center for Economic Research and Development (CIDE), she holds a Ph.D in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a B.A. in Law from the Mexico’s Autonomous Technological Institute (ITAM). She been a visiting researcher at Harvard’s European Law Research Center and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley’s International and Comparative Law Research Center.

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Storyteller, essayist, editor and translator. La mujer de M. (2012), Ciudad tomada (2013) and Los que hablan. Fotorrelatos (2016). are among his most recent books. He has worked since 2011 in the narrative project El hombre de tweed, unfolding on Twitter. Mr. Montiel has been the beneficiary of grants and scholarships from Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and Scotland’s Hawthornden Retreat for Writers.

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An originator of new forms of community and civic participation, he is the creator of the Superbarrio masked character. He fought for 30 years to give Mexico City an autonomous government and a local Constitution. He has contributed to La Jornada and Milenio newspapers and has run as the Humanistic Party candidate for Mayor of Mexico City.

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A Social Sciences researcher and an activist, Dr. Reguillo specializes in youth studies, the city as social space and fear as a social construct. She holds a Ph.D in Social Sciences from the University of Guadalajara and has been honored with Mexico’s National Anthropology Prize and the Ibero-American Prize for Municipal and Regional Research from Madrid’s Union of Capital Cities.

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Escritora y editora, licenciada en Letras Hispánicas y maestra en Literatura Comparada, es autora de siete libros, entre ellos los volúmenes de poesía Sonetos y son quince (2018, Parentalia), Eros una vez (2017, ganador del Premio Internacional de Poesía Mario Benedetti, publicado en Uruguay por Seix Barral) y Ser azar (2016, Editorial Abismos). Poemas suyos han aparecido en medios mexicanos y de Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Estados Unidos y España. Es editora del suplemento sabatino El Cultural y conductora de radio y TV.

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A recipient of the Herralde Prize, Mr. Villoro is a Germanist who served as cultural attaché for the Mexican embassy to the GDR. He has authored novels such as El disparo de Argón and El testigo, chronicles such as Los once de la tribu and plays such as Guerra fría, set in 1980s Berlin. He is also a contributor to Reforma newspaper.

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Ms. Warkentin majored in Media Studies at Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana and holds a post-graduate degree from Spain’s University of Navarra. She teaches at Mexico City’s Center for Economic Research and Development (CIDE) and anchors W Radio’s Así las Cosas morning newscast. She is also a contributor to El País newspaper.

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A member of the Mexican Association of Research Agencies (AMAI) for 30 years, he chairs NODO Investigación + Estrategia, a company devoted to the understanding of markets and consumers as well as the development of market strategies. NODO has been publishing a yearly study on the Mexican's perception of happiness for more than a decade.