Dr. Raúl Benitez Manaut

Raúl was President of the non-governmental organization “Collective of Analysis of Security with Democracy, A.C.”. He has a bachelor's degree in Sociology from UNAM, a master's degree in Economics and International Politics from CIDE, and a doctorate in Latin American Studies from UNAM. He is a winner of the National University Award for Young Academics (September 1989).

Raúl won first place in the 1987 UCA Editores Contest, organized by the José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA) of El Salvador. He also won first place in the CISAN-UNAM Research Contest, as well as the CISAN-William and Flora Hewllet Foundation Research Findings Award, in 2004.

He has been a professor at Columbia University in New York (2001), at American University in Washington, DC, (2006-2007), and at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University of the United States (2004). He was a visiting researcher at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., in 1998 and 2003. He has been a professor at the University for Peace, San José Costa Rica (1992 and 2018). He has also been a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, the Anáhuac University, the Center for Higher Naval Studies, the Matías Romero Institute and the National Defense College.

He is an active member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and the Mexican Association of International Studies (AMEI). He has participated in various national and international research groups related to security issues in Latin America. He was a consultant for the writing of the Regional Human Development Report 2013-2014, Citizen Security with a Human Face: Diagnosis and Proposals for Latin America (New York: United Nations Development Program, undp, 2013).