General Information
Center for Dialogue and Analysis on North America (CEDAN)
Tecnologico de Monterrey
¿What is the CEDAN?
The Center for Dialogue and Analysis on North America (CEDAN) is a virtual and interdisciplinary center, affiliated to the Business Division of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
The central aim of the CEDAN is to offer an opportunity for dialogue and analysis on strategic topics in North America, in order to contribute to the construction of a common trilateral vision for the future of the region.
The CEDAN seeks to promote systematic, inter-disciplinary and applied research among experts in North America to help address policy needs and propose innovative schemes for cooperation in the public and the private sectors. The CEDAN also promotes teaching and training activities for the future leaders of North America.
The strategic issues of the CEDAN are:
1) Competitiveness and social welfare in Mexico and in the region
2) Sustainable development, climate change and energy interdependence
3) Labor markets, labor mobility and human capital
4) Security and economic integration
Justification
The global context presents challenges that could be easily turned into opportunities if Mexico, Canada and United States would coordinate their efforts. The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was an important first step in constructing a cooperative agenda to improve the competitiveness of each of the three members individually, as well as the competitiveness of the region as a whole.
Fifteen years after its implementation, NAFTA’s benefits are clear in terms of larger trade and capital flows. However, this model still faces the distrust of certain sectors of society in all three countries, who point at continued income inequality, poverty, migration and environmental deterioration in the region as signs of its failure.
Clearly, we need to redefine the agenda of cooperation in North America, in the light of past experience and in the interest of creating a new vision of the region’s future. Hence, the Center for Dialogue and Analysis on North America (CEDAN) aims to become a plural channel of dialogue and analysis that contributes to an agenda of cooperation in the relationship between Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Projects
1. The North American Dialogue: initiative for a plural dialogue between experts from the three countries to generate policy proposals and business strategies for regional cooperation and development
2. Program on Labor Mobility and Labor Markets in North America:
- Human Capital, Demography and Labor Mobility in the region
- Skilled Temporary Workers
3. Program on Sustainable Development in North America:
- Regional Climate Change Governance and Energy Security in North America
- Training and education on issues concerning the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and its effects
- Megacities and Climate Change
4. Border security and regional integration: dialogues to facilitate the legitimate flows of goods and persons through the borders of the region
5. Voices of North America: bimonthly electronic publication for the dissemination and analysis on strategic topics in North America
CEDAN works jointly with other institutions and partners: the International Organization for Migration, the Center for International Governance and Innovation (Canada), the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington), the North American Center for Transborder Studies (Arizona), the University of California (Irvine), the University of Wilfried Laurier (Canada), the University of Notre Dame (Illinois), and the World Policy Institute (New York).
Structure
The Board of Directors is formed by:
- Ing. Juan Manuel Durán Gutiérrez, President, Mexico City Metropolitan Area, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Dr. Arturo Molina Gutiérrez, President,, Mexico City Campus, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Dr. Daniel Moska Arreola, Director of the Business Division, Mexico City Metropolitan Area, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Dr. Isabel Studer Noguez, Founding Director of CEDAN
In the Advisory Board of the CEDAN participate businessmen, officials and ex-officials of high level, scholars and media people of the three countries.
CEDAN’s work team is a group of young professionals of different disciplines. Also, CEDAN associates professors from the Tecnológico de Monterrey System and other universities through tri-national research projects.
Board of Advisers
Juan Artola, Chief of Mission in Mexico, International Migrations Organization
Sigrid Arzt, Secretary for the National Security Council, Office of the Mexican President
José Barrera, Director, Master in International Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México
Pascal Beltrán del Río, Chief Editor Director, Excélsior
Ambassador Enrique Berruga, Vice-President Corporative Relations and Communication, Grupo Modelo
Herminio Blanco, President, Inteligencia Comercial, IQOM
Stephen Blank, Co-President, North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council
Gonzalo Canseco, Chief of Staff, Foreign Affairs Ministry
José Carreño, El Universal
Jorge Chabat, Professor, International Studies Division, CIDE
Eugenio Clariond, President and CEO IMSA Group
Stephen Clarkson, Professor, University of Toronto
Julio De Quesada, President of the Executive Council of Global Enterprises
Martha Delgado, Environment Secretary, Mexico City
Charles Doran, Director of the Center for Canadian Studies, Johns Hopkins University- SAI
Adrián Fernández, National Environment Institute
Aldo Flores, Foreign Affairs General Director, Energy Ministry
Vidal Garza, Director, Fundación FEMSA
Amy Glover Drake, Senior Associate, Guerra Castellanos y Asociados
Senator Adriana González, Deputy Coordinator for Foreign Policies, PAN Parlamentary Group
Senator Rosario Green, President, Foreign Affairs Commission, Mexican Senate
Carlos Heredia, Research, Center for Interamerican Studies (CEPI), ITAM.
Silvia Hernández, President, Estrategia Pública
Ambassador James R. Jones, Co-Chairman, Manatt Jones Global Strategies
Beatriz Léycegui, Undersecratry of International Trade Negotiations, Foreign Affairs Ministry
Isidro Morales, Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Santa Fe Campus
Robert Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University
Ambassador Carlos Rico Ferrat, Vice-minister for North America, Foreign Affairs Ministry
Roberto Salinas, Director General, Mexico Business Forum
Congress Cuauhtémoc Sandoval, Secretary for the Foreign Affairs Commission, Parlamentary Group, PRD
Alberto Saracho, General Director, Fundación IDEA
Daniel Schwanen, Executive Director of the Center for International Governance and Innovation
Kenneth Smith, General Director for Institutional and International Affairs, Federal Commission for Competition
Enrique Tamés, Director of Social Sciences and Humanities Division, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México
Celia Toro, Director of the Matías Romero Institute, Foreign Affairs Ministry
Javier Treviño, Senior Vice-president Communication and Corporate Affairs, CEMEX
José Treviño, Vice-president for North America, COMCE
Adrián Vázquez, Executive Director, North America Environment Cooperation Commission
Rosalind Wilson, President, Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico
Carol Wise, Professor, University of Southern California
Albert Zapanta, President, US-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Centero for Dialogue and Analysis on North America
Business Division, Mexico City Metropolitan Area
Campus Ciudad de México
Calle del Puente 222, Ejidos de Huipulco, Tlalpan, México D.F.
Tel: 52 (55) 5483 2020, ext. 1875 y 1485
http://www.ccm.itesm.mx/cedan/
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