Enrique Dussel Peters

Enrique Dussel Peters has been a professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) since 1993. He serves as a consultant for several Mexican and international institutions, and he earned his BA and MA in political science at the Free University of Berlin and his PhD in economics at the University of Notre Dame. Research topics that interest him include economic development, political economy, industrial organization, and trade theory; NAFTA and CAFTA; evolution of industrial, trade, and regional patterns in Latin America and Mexico. He has conducted research on specific segments of commodity chains, such as pineapples, lemons, electronics, yarn, textiles, garments, auto parts and automobiles, and pharmaceuticals, among others. All of these research interests have increasingly been pursued from a comparative perspective (Latin America and Mexico–China). As an ongoing project, he is coordinating a group of studies and respective publications of China’s overseas foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Latin America and Mexico and of Mexican firms in China. He has served as coordinator of the Area of Political Economy at the Graduate School of Economics at UNAM from 2004 to 2008, and he is currently, since 2006, coordinator of the Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies at UNAM. He also serves as the coordinator of the Academic Network of Latin American and Caribbean on China (Red ALC-China).