Antonio Ortiz Mena
School of Foreign Service
Antonio Ortiz-Mena is an Adjunct Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), at Georgetown University. His areas of specialization include international political economy, international trade, economic integration, Mexico–U.S. economic relations, and geoeconomics.
He has published extensively in academic journals and contributed book chapters to volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Stanford University Press, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Brookings Institution Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer/International Law Institute. His research covers NAFTA and USMCA negotiations and performance, dispute settlement over trade and investment, trade and national security, the multilateral trading system, Mexico's regional and multilateral trade policy, domestic determinants of trade strategies, and Western Hemisphere trade relations.
He previously served as Professor of International Political Economy at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), where he chaired the Department of International Studies.
Dr. Ortiz-Mena is President and CEO of AOM Advisors, where he advises companies in highly regulated sectors on geopolitics, international trade, and foreign investment. He previously served as Partner at Dentons Global Advisors and Senior Vice President at the Albright Stonebridge Group, advising Fortune 500 companies on geopolitical and economic risk and trade and investment negotiations. In public service, he served as Minister for Economic Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in the United States (2007-2015) and was a member of Mexico's original NAFTA negotiating team.
Widely recognized for his expertise on North American political and economic trends, he is a frequent speaker at academic conferences, policy forums, and industry events on topics including trade negotiations, supply chain resilience, nearshoring, regulatory frameworks, and U.S.-Mexico-Latin America economic relations. He is a regular expert commentator on Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, and Univision, and has been interviewed by the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, and Inside U.S. Trade.
Dr. Ortiz-Mena is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a member of The Trilateral Commission, and chairs the USMCA Committee of Mexico's Foreign Trade Council (COMCE). He holds a PhD in International Political Economy from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and an MA from University College London.
