María Elena Romero

Full-time professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Colima. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences with an emphasis in the area of International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is currently working on international cooperation for development, particularly the case of Japan. Researcher level I of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). She was a JICA scholar in 1995, visiting professor at the Universities of Waseda and Tsukuba working on international cooperation for development and civil society. On the subject of Japanese cooperation she has written articles, book chapters and presented papers in several forums. Her most recent publications are: "Solidarity and interests in international development cooperation: the cases of China and Japan in Africa", published in Foro Internacional de El Colegio de México in 2021; "Japan: An experience in the world of international development cooperation", chapter published in the collective work "Theory and practice of international development cooperation: a perspective from Mexico" published by CGECID in 2020 and the article "Japanese development cooperation. The State of Guanajuato in Mexico, where public and private sector objectives meet", published in the Argentine journal of Public Administration and Society of the National University of Cordoba in 2020.

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