Jorge Castañeda has served as a political advisor to the Mexican government on Central American and Caribbean affairs, as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and as an independent presidential candidate for Mexico’s 2006 election.

Castañeda received his bachelor’s degrees from Princeton University, an M.A. from the École Pratique de Hautes Études, and a Ph. D. in economic history from the Sorbonne.

He has published more than a dozen books, including a biography of Che Guevara, and he regularly contributes to newspapers such as The New York Times, Reforma, El País, Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek magazine.

He has worked as a professor at several universities, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, the University of Cambridge and currently at New York University. He was a Bernard Schwartz fellow at The New America Foundation.