Academic

• “The Political Origins of Corruption in Mexico” at State and Organized in Mexico at Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), May 30, 2019 (Mexico City, MX); at Tuesday Seminar Series David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Apr 23, 2019 (Cambridge, MA).
• “Corruption Types & Income Inequality: Evidence from Latin America” at Latin American Studies Program's Speaker Series at Cornell University. Apr 25, 2019 (Ithaca, NY).
• “Doing Fieldwork in Highly Violent Areas of Latin America” at Harvard University’s fieldwork workshop. Apr 5, 2019 (Cambridge, MA).
• “Towards a Mexican Welfare State” at Colegio de México. Mar 7, 2019 (Mexico City, MX).
• “Corruption & Inequality in Latin America” at Latin American Studies Program's Speaker Series at MPSA Annual Meeting. Apr 6-8, 2018 (Chicago, IL).
• "To be or not to be a Drug-trafficker" at Seminar on Normative Approaches to Study of Criminal Violence at CIDE. November 16, 2017 (Mexico City, Mexico).
• “Violence and Business Attitudes toward Redistribution Evidence from Mexico” at APSA Annual Conference. Sept 1-3, 2017 (San Francisco, CA).
• "The fight against corruption: Mexican case" at Ecuadorian Economic Policy Institute, March 22, 2017 (Guayaquil, Ecuador).
• "Mexico's new security challenges" at the United States Naval Academy, February 7, 2017 (Annapolis, MD), and at Mexico Security Initiative, University of Texas, February 8, 2017 (Austin, TX).
• The economic effects of violence and corruption" at Texas A&M International University's 2016-2017 International Bank of Commerce Keynote Speaker Series, November 9, 2016 (Laredo, Texas), and XXI Economists National Congress, November 4, 2016 (Toluca, Mexico).
• "Security in Mexico: A research agenda" at The University of Oklahoma. February 16, 2016 (Norman, Oklahoma).
• “How criminal rivalry leads to violence against the press” at Purdue University, January 13, 2016 (Purdue, Indiana); and Texas A & M University, December 24, 2015 (Laredo, Texas).
• “Rule of Law and Corruption” at Rethinking Violence and Civil Society in Mexico, Harvard University. April 10, 2015 (Cambridge, MA).
• “The Citizen Security Tipping Points” at Stanford University, ITAM and UNDP. March 11, 2013 (Mexico City, Mexico).
•  “Government Coordination and Violence Deterrence in Mexico’s Drug War” at School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), UCSD. November 14, 2012 (San Diego, CA); Political Economy Graduate Students Workshop, Harvard University. October 12, 2012 (Cambridge, MA); The Rand Corporation. November 13, 2012 (Washington, DC).
• “When Criminals Cannot Hide: Generating Intelligence Data Through Search Engines” at New Directions in Analyzing Text Data Conference, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University. October 9, 2012 (Cambridge, MA).
• “Police Security in Borderlands” at Border and Borderlands in the Americas Conference, Stanford University. June 18, 2012 (Palo Alto, CA).
• “Drug Traffickers‘ Communications and Violence: Assessing the Impact of Expressed Rivalries in Drug-Related Violence” at The International Studies Association. April 4, 2012 (San Diego, CA).
• “Lessons From Mexico’s Drug War: Policy Outcomes Depend on Organizational Structure” at World Peace Foundation, Tufts University. May 29, 2012 (Boston, MA).
• “Security Issues and Immigration Flows: Drug-violence Refugees, the New Mexican Immigrants” at Graduate Student Political Economy Seminar, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University. February 17, 2012 (Cambridge, MA).
•  “Why Did Mexican Drug Traffickers Become So Violent? Trends and Explanations to a Drug War” at David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Tuesday Seminar, Harvard University. January 31, 2012 (Cambridge, MA).
•  “Understanding Mexico’s drug violence” at The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. December 8-10, 2011 (New York, NY).
• “Drug War: Myths and Realities” at Dean’s Roundtable Breakfast, UCSD. November 16, 2011 (San Diego, CA).
•  “Criminal Market Diversification and Drug-related Violence” and “Security Issues and Immigration Flows” at Violence, Drugs and Governance: Mexican Security in Comparative Perspective Conference, Stanford University. October 3-4, 2011 (Palo Alto, CA).
• “The Future of Mexican Drug Cartels” at Mexico Security Conference, The Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State, and the National Intelligence Council. August 11-12, 2011 (Washington, DC).
• “Why are Mexican Mayors Getting Killed by Trackers? Corruption Dynamics in Mexico” at MPSA Annual Conference. March 2011 (Chicago, IL); Research Colloquium, Williams College. November, 2010 (Williamstown, MA); Public Policy and Inequality Seminar, Harvard University. November, 2010 (Cambridge, MA).
• “Trends and Figures on Drug-related Violence in Mexico, 2010” (with Shirk) at Trans-Border Institute, University of San Diego. December 10, 2010 (San Diego, CA).
•  “Public Security and Competitiveness: Improving Mexico’s Image” at International Congress on Competitiveness, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas. November, 2010 (Nuevo Laredo, Mexico).
•  “The Potential Impacts of Marijuana Legalization in Mexico’s Drug-related Violence” at Ending Prohibition Conference: Proposition 19 and Marijuana Legalization, Trans-Border Institute, University of San Diego. October 14, 2010 (San Diego, CA).
• “Political Conflict in Indigenous Latin America” at LASA 2010 Meeting. Oct 7, 2010 (Toronto, CN).
• “To Be or Not to Be a Drug Tracker: Modeling Occupational Choices of Criminals” at MPSA Annual Conference. April, 2010 (Chicago, IL).
• “Evaluating the Economic Impact of Drug Track in Mexico” at Graduate Students Political Economy Workshop, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University. Spring 2008 (Cambridge, MA).
• “Possible Manipulations of Indigenous Electoral Traditions in Mexico” (with Eisenstadt) at MPSA 2010 Meeting. April 23, 2006 (Chicago, IL)

Non-Academic

• "Mexico's Challenges Under a Left Government" at University of Southern California (USC, invited by Pamela Starr). May 30, 2019 (Mexico City, Mexico).
• “Mexico’s Security Challenge” at Harvard University Mexican Association (HUMA) and the Mexican Caucus, Harvard Kennedy School. Apr 26, 2019 (Cambridge, MA).
• “A Conversation about Security and Corruption” at HUMA Speaker Series, Harvard Kennedy School. Feb 21, 2019 (Cambridge, MA).
• “Using Data to Reduce Corruption” United Nations Public Service Forum Jun 22, 2018 (Marrakech, Morocco)
• “Mexico’s Economic and Social Challenges” at Mexican Employers Confederation. May 23, 2018 (Aguascalientes, MX); May 7, 2018 (Ciudad Valles, MX).
• “Economic Impacts of Corruption” at Mexican Employers Confederation. Feb 28, 2018 (Hermosillo, MX).
• “The Missing Reform: Strengthening the Rule of Law in Mexico” at The Wilson Center. Feb 5, 2018 (Washington, D.C.).
• “Economic Challenges 2018” at Mercer Consulting. Jan 8, 2018 (Mexico City, MX).
•  “Boosting Regional Economic Growth” at Mexican Employers Confederation. December 20, 2017 (Oaxaca, Mexico); October 25, 2017 (Durango, Mexico); September 29, 2017 (Puebla, Mexico).
• “Lessons and Future of Mexico’s National Anticorruption System” at Mexican Employers Confederation. Oct 24, 2017 (Hidalgo del Parral, MX), Jun 5, 2017 (Tlaxcala, MX),  May 30, 2017 (Reynosa, MX). 
• “Understanding the Economic Effects of Corruption” at Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF). October 12, 2017 (Mexico City, Mexico).
• “Cash transfers and government approval ratings: The case of Fiji after Tropical Cyclone Winston” at The World Bank. April 4, 2017 (Washington, D.C.)
• What is inhibiting Mexico’s Growth?” at Canadian Chamber. Dec 5, 2016. (Mexico City, MX).
• “Brief of Mexico’s Politics and Economics” at The Dialogue. Dec 1, 2016 (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
• “Nudge Innovation in Mexico” at Wilson Center Innovation Forum. November 17, 2016 (Boston, MA).
• Moderator at the "International Symposium of Oral-Adversarial Justice Systems" in Oral-Adversarial Skill-building Immersion Seminar, September 8-9, 2016 (Mexico City).
•  “The impact of crime and violence on economic diversity” at Mexico's Central Bank, June 22, 2016 (Mexico City), The Inter-American Development Bank April 6, 2016 (Washington, D.C.), and at The Wilson Center for International Scholars, November 17, 2015 (Washington, D.C.).
• "The Costs of Mexico's Corruption" at Citibank's Investors Plenary Meeting. March 3, 2016 (Mexico City, Mexico).
• “Rule of Law and Economic Development in Mexico” at The Wilson Center for International Scholars, January, 2016 (Washington, D.C.).
•  “Labor and Productivity Inequality between States” at The Economist’s Mexico Summit. November 5, 2015 (Mexico City, Mexico).
• “Debating Marihuana Legalization” at La Ciudad de las Ideas, Nov, 2015 (Puebla, MX).
• "The Challenges of Mexico City's Economy" at IMEF Annual Meeting. July 29, 2015 (Mexico City, Mexico).
• “Economic growth in Mexico” at Mexican Employers Confederation, February 12, 2015 (Mexico City, MX).
•  “Drugs, Violence and Crime” at Attorney General Office of Mexico’s Federal District (PGJDF) October 3, 2012 (Mexico City) (Done in Spanish).
•  “Corruption, Justice Reform and Citizen Security in Mexico’s Drug War” at The World Bank’s Citizen Security Beam BBL, Latin American and the Caribbean. September 12, 2012 (Washington, DC).
•  “The Future of Mexican Drug Cartels” at Mexico Security Conference, The Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State, and the National Intelligence Council. August 11-12, 2011 (Washington, DC).
• “The Cost of Hired Assassins in Mexico” at DRT International, National Danish Television, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). October 14, 2010 (Skyped interview).
• “Trends in Drug-related Violence and Policy Recommendations” at Southern California Roundtable, CENTRA Technology Inc. September 22, 2010 (Santa Monica, CA).