Wednesday, January 4
We heard from Ambassador Luisa Fajer, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Mexican Embassy. Ambassador Fajer joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1993 and was promoted to the rank of Ambassador in March 2018. She has a Degree in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as well as a Master’s degree in African Studies from El Colegio de Mexico. In the Secretariat of Foreign Relations, she served as Director General for Africa and the Middle East, and Director General for North America. She was Consul in Minnesota, and Ambassador of Mexico to South Africa, with concurrent jurisdiction inn 11 countries in Southern Africa. She also served as Coordinator of International and Interinstitutional Relations at the National Institute for Migration, and Director General of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. She has been a professor and lecturer at several institutions of higher education, including UNAM, ITAM, the Ibero-American University in Mexico, as well as the University of California, Santa Cruz. She coordinated the first edition on Africa of the Mexican Journal of Foreign Policy. She has published numerous articles about foreign policy, the Middle East and women in Africa.
