Conferences

“Mexico’s Economic and Social Challenges” at Mexican Employers Confederation. May 23, 2018 (Aguascalientes, MX); May 7, 2018 (Ciudad Valles, MX).
“Corruption & Inequality in Latinamerica” at MPSA Annual Meeting. April 6-8, 2018.
“The Impact of Corruption on Mexico’s Economic Development” at Mexican Employers Confederation. Mar 1. 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).
"To be or not to be a Drug-trafficker" at CIDE's Seminar on Normative Approaches to Study of Criminal Violence. November 16, 2017 (Mexico City, Mexico).
“Understanding the Economic Eﬀects of Corruption” at Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF). October 12, 2017 (Mexico City, Mexico).
“Violence and Business Attitudes toward Redistribution Evidence from Mexico” at APSA Annual Conference. September 1-3, 2017 (San Francisco, CA).
“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).
"Cash, Vouchers or In-Kind? Boosting Citizens’ Satisfaction in Post-Emergency Contexts" at World Bank Social Protection, Labor & Jobs Global Practice Seminar. April 4, 2017 (Washington, DC).
"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).
"What is inhibiting Mexico's growth?" at Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, December 5, 2016 (Mexico City).
"Brief of Mexico's political and economic situtation in 2016" at The Dialogue Leadership for the Americas 29th Work Sesion, December 1, 2016 (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
"15 recommendations to nudge innovation in Mexico" at Third Annual High-Level innovation Forum for Policymakers, November 17, 2016 (Boston, MA).
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).
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).
"Security in Mexico: A research agenda" at The University of Oklahoma. February 16, 2016 (Norman, Oklahoma).
“Rule of Law and Economic Development in Mexico” at The Wilson Center for International Scholars, January, 2016 (Washington, D.C.).
“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).
“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. November, 2015 (Puebla, Mexico).
"The Challenges of Mexico City's Economy" at IMEF Annual Meeting. July 29, 2015 (Mexico City, Mexico).
“What a Ph.D. with Jorge Dominguez does to you” at Conference to Celebrate the Contributions of Jorge I. Domínguez, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. May 7 – 8, 2015 (Cambridge, MA).
“Rule of Law and Corruption” at Rethinking Violence and Civil Society in Mexico, Harvard University. April 10, 2015 (Cambridge, MA).
“Economic growth in Mexico” at COPARMEX Annual Meeting. February 12, 2015 (Mexico City, Mexico).
“The Citizen Security Tipping Points” at Stanford University, ITAM and UNDP. March 11, 2013 (Mexico City).
“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).
“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).
“Police Security in Borderlands” at Border and Borderlands in the Americas Conference, Stanford University. June 18, 2012 (Palo Alto, CA).
“Lessons From Mexico’s Drug War: Policy Outcomes Depend on Organizational Structure” at World Peace Foundation, Tufts University. May 29, 2012 (Boston, MA).
“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).
“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 (Boston, 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 (Boston, 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 Autonoma 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).
“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).
“To Be or Not to Be a Drug Tracker: Modeling Occupational Choices of Criminals” at MPSA Annual Conference. April, 2010 (Chicago, IL).
“Multiculturalism and Political Conflict in Indigenous Latin America” (with Eisenstadt) at LASA 2010 Meeting. October 7, 2010 (Toronto, Canada).
“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)

Viridiana Rios

Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University

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