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Maria Elena Labastida Tovar

was born in Mexico City in 1974. She taught international finance and development economics as a lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). In addition, she was a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science. She obtained her doctorate degree in Public Policy and Political Economy from UTD. She is also candidate for the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in political economy and political science at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where she is completing a dissertation on the antidumping policies in the European Union, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and developing countries in the steel industry. She holds a Master's degree in international relations with a specialty in international political economy from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In 2004 she received a second Master's degree in economics and politics of the European Union from the European Institute of the University of Geneva. She received her Bachelor's degree in international relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. Labastida's research work includes dispute settlement mechanisms employed by the World Trade Organization and in regional trade agreements, international finance, the cost-benefit analysis of public policies that allow or restrict the movement of trade in goods, services, capital and labor, economic growth and development, technological change and entrepreneurship. "The Impact of NAFTA on the Mexican-American Border" is the title of her paper that includes a public policy proposal for including in NAFTA, temporal permits for non-professional workers; this paper was published in 2008 by Palgrave-Mcmillan, as a book chapter in The Politics, Economics and Culture of Mexican-US Migration: Both Sides of the Border. In 2000, Maria Elena Labastida worked as a research assistant for the Mexican Ambassador in Morocco; in 1999, she collaborated as a research assistant for the Director in Mexico of the United Nations Organization for the Education, Science and Culture; from 1993 to 1998 she was quality assurance and international trade coordinator in the consumer goods division at the multinational Swiss firm Societé Générale de Surveillance.

Updated: 04/20/11

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