Jorge Eduardo Navarrete

Degree in Economics from UNAM and researcher at the University Program for Development Studies at UNAM. Within the Energy Group of the Program, he has recently published several working papers and various articles on energy reform in Mexico. He is an eminent ambassador of the Mexican Foreign Service. Within the Ministry of Foreign Relations, he was Undersecretary of Economic Affairs, between 1979 and 1985. He was head of the Mexican embassies in Venezuela, Austria, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, China, Chile and Brazil (mentioned in chronological order) as resident chief of mission. He was Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN from December 2000 to January 2002. He was Undersecretary for Policy and Development in the Ministry of Energy from 1995 to 1997.

Within his teaching experience, he has been a professor at UNAM, at the Schools of Economics and Political and Social Sciences, from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (Mexico City campus) and from the Iberoamerican University, as well as visiting professor at the Center for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and visiting speaker at the Oxford Energy Seminar.

He is a member of the South Commission, founded by Julius K Nyerere, and is part of UNAM's New Development Course Group, which has prepared, since 2009, various documents under the common title of Mexico in the face of the crisis: towards a new development course.