Duncan Wood
Director of the Undergraduate Program in International Relations
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City
Duncan Wood is Director of the Undergraduate Program in International Relations and Acting Head of the Department of International Studies and also directs the Canadian Studies Program at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. He is also a researcher in the Centro de Derecho Economico Internacional (CDEI) at ITAM
He studied in the UK and Canada, receiving his PhD in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Canada in 1996. He is a member of the Mexican National Research System (level 2), a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs en Español and has been an editorial advisor to Reforma newspaper. In 2007 he was a non-resident Fulbright Fellow.
His research focuses on the reform of the Mexican energy sector, Latin American energy policy, migration and remittances, the political economy of international finance, Canadian and Mexican foreign policy, and Canada-Mexico relations. He has published on banking supervision, North American relations, Latin American oil companies and Mexican migration.
Professor Wood is also technical secretary of the Red Mexicana de Energia, a group of experts in the area of energy policy. In 2009 he will direct the Energy Policy Studies Center, to be based at ITAM.