Mexican Council on Foreign Relations

Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs A.C. (COMEXI)

Founded	2001
Headquarters	Distrito Federal, Mexico
Key people	Enrique Berruga President Claudia Calvin Director General
Website	COMEXI

The Mexican Council on Foreign Relation 'COMEXI (in Spanish Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales) was established the 22 November 2001. So far, it is the only plural and multidisciplinary forum, focused in the debate and analysis of Mexico’s role in the world and the growing influence of international events on the national agenda. The Council is a civic association, nonprofit and independent of government. It is financed entirely by its member's contributions

Objectives

• Create a forum that brings together different sectors of Mexican society and facilitate meetings between them and their counterparts of other countries.
• Organize seminars, workshops and working meetings to exchange ideas and experiences that can be useful for those who are in charge of Mexico’s international relations or those interested in that process.
• Create institutional linkages with homologous organizations in other parts of the world.
• Develop research projects about relevant issues that become tools for decision makers.

Board

POSITION	NAME
President	Enrique Berruga
Ex-president	Fernando Solana
Ex-president	Andrés Rozental
Vicepresident	Jaime Zabludovsky
Vicepresident	Franciso Suárez Dávila
Vicepresident	Magdalena Carral
Counselor	Leonardo Curzio
Counselor	Juan Ramón de la Fuente
Counselor	Silvia Hernández
Counselor	Rafael Fernández MacGregor
Counselor	Guadalupe González
Counselor	Miguel Jauregui
Counselor	Karen Kovacs
Counselor	Lourdes Melgar
Counselor	Alfredo Phillips
Counselor	Nicole Reich
Counselor	Luis Téllez
Counselor	Mónica Verea

Members

COMEXI has among its members more than 450 personalities from various sectors and ideologies through the Ordinary Program and its three special programs: Corporate Program, aimed to leading companies; the Institutional Program, which gathers Foreign Embassies in Mexico, international organizations with offices in our country, as well as, research and teaching centers; and the Term-Member Program, created to support the development of future leaders.

Corporate Members

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Telmex	Union Pacific
American Express Co.	British Petroleum
América Móvil	Grupo Bimbo
Toyota	ExxonMobil
FEMSA	Solana Consultores
Grupo Gigante	Grupo Empresarial Olmeca
Grupo Televisa	Grupo Financiero Scotiabank
Grupo Financiero HSBC	Grupo México
Grupo Financiero Banamex

Institutional Members

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Embassy of the United States	Delegation of Quebec
Embassy of Canada	Embassy of Australia
Embassy of South Africa	Embassy of Finland
Delegation of the European Union	Iberoamericana University
Real Embassy of Norway	Embassy of Japan
Embassy of France	Embassy of India
El Colegio de México, A.C.	Embassy of the Turkish Republic
Embassy of New Zealand	Embassy of Switzerland
Anáhuac University México Norte	Center of Research on North America (CISAN-UNAM)
Embassy of Ireland	Embassy of the People's Republic of China
Embassy of Brazil	Embassy of Sweden
Embassy of Argentina	Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
General Coordination on Foreign Affairs and Parliamentary Relations of the Senate	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Embassy of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Embassy of Morocco Kingdom
Embassy of Israel	National Institute of Public Administration (INAP)

Activities

COMEXI has authored unpublished materials, such as the biannual survey of opinion "Mexico and the World", prepared jointly with the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). Additionally, published a Collection of Papers of the Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs which addressed important issues of international affairs.

An additional facet of the Council's objectives is to participate at conferences, study groups or workshops on topics relevant to Mexico and its international partners. It has partnerships with the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Council of the Americas, the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in the United States and six Latin American Councils (Argentine Council for International Affairs, the Conselho Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais, the Chilean Council for International Affairs, the Uruguayan Council for Foreign Relations, the Paraguayan Center for International Studies and the Peruvian Center for International Relations). Additionally COMEXI signed a Memoranda of Understanding with: the Institute Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and the Indian Council of World Affairs.

Since 2003, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.^[1] and COMEXI instituted Stays Academic Program for Research in Public Policy for researchers on issues of bilateral relations Mexico-United States. Through this, each year about three specialists conducted research at the headquarters of the Wilson Center in Washington, DC

To date, the COMEXI has consolidated as an opinion leader in foreign policy. The apparition of the Council in radio programs and television analysis, in addition to more than 30 MEMBERS IN THE PRESS who publish in print media daily basis. The level of Associates and its deliberations in an informal and open, has increasingly become a forum to COMEXI meeting required for individuals who visit our country.

Information Center

COMEXI's web site give to any who interested in the global agenda, the opportunity to explore special articles that are product of the research made by the Council in the most important organizations around the globe.

The Center is divided in two categories: regional and thematic that helps users on their researches.

Regional Information Center.

Regional

1. North America
2. Latin America
3. Africa
4. Europe
5. Middle East
6. Russia and Central Asia
7. Asia
8. Oceania

Thematic

1. Financial Crisis
2. Human Rights
3. Economy
4. Environment and Climate Change
5. Migration
6. International Organizations
7. Mexico´s Foreign Policy
8. Security
9. Democracy
10. Disarm
11. Energy
12. Mexico in the Security Council
13. Public Opinion
14. International Policy
15. US-Mexico Relations
16. World Food Sytem

References

1. ^ http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.item&news_id=11742 Public relations statement from the Wilson Center