Courtesy of Caledonia Curry (Brooklyn, New York, 2016) swoonstudio.org/street
Public Policy Engagement
My research has been oriented not only to producing academic publications, but also to informing policy debates on local governance and fiscal policy. I have provided consultation on the design of municipal fiscal reform packages to local politicians in Mexico City and Bogotá. I coordinated the Academic Council on Social Policy in Guadalajara, where scholars discussed policy issues with the city’s Social Development Ministry and consulted with congress members who were promoting a reform of the constitutional article concerning municipal governments in Mexico. More recently I have participated in campaigns led by organizations like OXFAM- Mexico, FUNDAR and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation around Fiscal Justice.
Some of my public talks:
CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE
Los Retos del Sistema Fiscal en México
El Colegio de México & La Comisión Independiente para la Igualdad y la Justicia Fiscal, September 29, 2025. (from 1hr 52min onward)
La Justicia Fiscal, asunto de Mujeres
El Colegio de México, OXFAM & La Comisión Independiente para la Igualdad y la Justicia Fiscal, June 19, 2025 (3 hr 12 min onward).
WEBINAR
Why is Mexico so unequal?
Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, Nov. 15, 2021.
CONFERENCE
Mexico, toward a new fiscal pact
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Guadalajara, México, March 14, 2022 (min 38 onward)
CONFERENCE
WEBINAR
Foro Urbano 2022, La ciudad que queremos
Organized by CORE, Mexico, November 8, 2022, min 55 onward.
Reforma fiscal para acortar la brecha
Organized by Futuro, local political party in Jalisco, Mexico, August 18, 2020.
INTERVIEW
Una Mirada a la Reforma Hacendaria
September, 2013.