Full Biography
Blanca Heredia is currently an investigative professor and founding director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Politics and Educative Practices since 2012. She is also a visiting professor at the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, Northwestern, Georgetown, and others. She occasionally writes columns in El Financiero.
Blanca was the academic secretary at the Center of Investigation and Economic Teachings (CIDE) from 1996-2004. She went on to be the Director of the Center for Democratic Development of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) and the academic vice-rector of American University in Paris. She represented the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Mexico for Latin America from 2007-2009. also served as commissioner for political development at the Ministry of the Interior from 2009-2010, before being a visiting professor at Georgetown University.
She holds a degree in international relations from El Colegio de México and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
