{"id":3994,"date":"2021-02-03T03:09:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/u-s-mexico-relations-achievements-and-the-road-ahead\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:03:15","slug":"u-s-mexico-relations-achievements-and-the-road-ahead","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/event\/u-s-mexico-relations-achievements-and-the-road-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. \u2013 Mexico Relations: Achievements and the Road Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ambassador Martha B\u00e1rcena<\/strong> was appointed by President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador and ratified by the Mexican Senate on December 2018, becoming the first female Ambassador to hold this position. Ambassador B\u00e1rcena joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1979. Prior to arriving in Washington, D.C., she was posted as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Rome-based Agencies. She has also served as Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, non-resident to Georgia and the Republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan; Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark, non-resident to the Kingdom of Norway and the Republic of Iceland, and as Consul in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

On the multilateral level, Ambassador B\u00e1rcena has represented Mexico as delegate at the UN, UNESCO and the OAS as well as head of delegation at the Forum on Migration and Development. She has also participated in multiple international conferences organized by the G-20 and the World Humanitarian Summit.<\/p>\n

Ambassador B\u00e1rcena holds a degree in Communication Sciences from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and a degree in Philosophy, summa cum laude, from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. She also earned a Master’s Degree in International Studies (Diplomatic School, Spain) and a Master’s Degree in Political Philosophy (Universidad Iberoamericana).<\/p>\n

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\"5Breier\"Kimberly Breier <\/strong>is a policy and intelligence professional with more than 20 years of experience on Western Hemisphere affairs. She served as assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs at the Department of State in 2018-2019. As the Senate-confirmed top diplomat for the Western Hemisphere, she led policy formulation for the Department of State and interagency, overseeing operations of U.S. embassies and consulates in 30 countries. Previously, she was appointed to serve as the Western Hemisphere member of the secretary of state\u2019s policy planning staff (2017-2018). Ms. Breier was formerly deputy director of the Americas Program at CSIS. For five years, she served as vice president of the boutique consulting firm Peschard Sverdrup International, leading country risk assessment teams for private clients in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Previously, Ms. Breier served for more than a decade in the U.S. intelligence community as a political analyst and manager. From January 2005 to June 2006, Ms. Breier served at the White House in the National Security Council\u2019s Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs, where she first was director for Brazil and the Southern Cone and later was director for Mexico and Canada. She also was an interim director for the Andean region. Prior to government service, Ms. Breier served as a senior fellow and director of the National Policy Association\u2019s North American Committee\u2014a trilateral business and labor committee with members from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Ms. Breier holds an M.A. in Latin American studies from Georgetown University\u2019s School of Foreign Service and a B.A. in Spanish from Middlebury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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On Thursday, April 15, the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law will host Martha B\u00e1rcena Coqui, outgoing Mexican Ambassador to the United States, and Kimberly Breier, Senior Adviser (Non-resident), Americas Program for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), for a conversation on “U.S. \u2013 Mexico Relations: Achievements and the Road Ahead.” Join us on Zoom at 12:15 pm CDT. Virtual doors open at 12:00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3991,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[23],"event-year":[233],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}