BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Duncan Wood, a senior advisor to the Mexico Institute in Washington, D.C., is to speak at two events in the Rio Grande Valley this week.
The first is being hosted by the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation. The event is titled. “New Mexican Moment.” It takes place Thursday, July 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Texas Southmost College’s Performing Arts Center. Wood will speak in the Gold Hall Room, located at 90 East Taylor Ave in Brownsville.
Elsa M. Galvan, operations manager for GBIC, said Wood will speak about this topic:
Duncan Wood”As the United States reorients its supply chains, and companies look for re-shoring near-shoring and ally-shoring opportunities, northern Mexico is on the brink of a new golden economic era. Already we are seeing massive investments taking place from the US, Chinese and other foreign companies. This is having an immediate impact on real estate, infrastructure, energy and labor markets in northern Mexico, and these effects will soon spill over to the US side of the border. What can border states and municipalities do to prepare themselves for the New Mexican Moment?”
For more information on the Brownsville event, call (956) 561-4133.
Wood’s second speech will take place during the City of McAllen’s MXLAN festival. Wood will give the keynote speech at an International Commerce Summit at the McAllen Convention Center on Friday, July 28. The summit runs from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Xochitl Mora, director of communications for the City of McAllen, said Wood’s keynote address will “shed light on the current state of relations between Texas, the United States, and Mexico and highlight the potential for future growth and collaboration.”
Mora added: “The South Texas region possesses a geographical advantage that links the United States and Mexico, making it a critical hub for cross-border trade and investments. McAllen, situated at the heart of this dynamic region, plays a pivotal role in facilitating trade and investment flows between the two nations. Understanding the potential impact of this unique positioning is vital to capitalize on emerging opportunities and tackle any challenges that may arise.”
For more information on the McAllen event, call (956) 681-1001.
Here is a summary of Wood’s bio, as displayed on the Mexico Institute website:
Duncan Wood, PhD, Vice President for Strategy & New Initiatives and Senior Advisor to the Mexico Institute, focuses his research and publications on supply chain policy, critical minerals, Mexican politics and U.S.-Mexican ties. He regularly gives testimony to Congress and other national legislatures, and has published 12 books and is a widely quoted source in national and international media.
Here is Wood’s Full Bio:
Duncan Wood, PhD, is Vice President for Strategy and New Initiatives at the Wilson Center, where he works on supply chain policy, critical minerals, electric vehicles and on the geopolitics of the energy transition. From 2013-2020, he was Director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and now serves as a Senior Advisor to the Institute. He is an internationally renowned specialist on supply chain policy, the geopolitics of critical minerals, Mexican politics and US-Mexican ties. He regularly gives testimony to the US Congress, is a widely quoted media source, and has published extensively on a wide range of global issues. He is the author or editor of 12 books and more than 30 chapters and articles. He is a board member of Transparency International, Signos Vitales (a Mexican public policy research organization) and Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica, and is an editorial advisor to El Universal newspaper.
Over the past decade he has served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption, has worked closely with the WEF on energy policy. From 1996-2012, he was a professor and the director of the International Relations Program at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City. Over the course of his 30 year career he has been a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); an editorial advisor to Reforma newspaper; Technical Secretary of the Red Mexicana de Energia; a consultant with McLarty Associates, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Horizon and Eurasia Group; and owner of a speakeasy in Mexico City. He studied in the UK and Canada, receiving his Doctorate in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Canada, is a life-long fan of Liverpool Football Club and will hopefully Never Walk Alone.
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