Javier Mancera

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Javier Mancera
Javier Mancera is Managing Director and founding partner at De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C. (CMM) and is in charge of international trade, strategic planning, and government relations for the firm.Before founding CMM, Javier Mancera was a director at Public Strategies de México, an international public affairs company, where Javier contributed with his experience in trade and strategic planning.

Prior to entering the private sector, Javier Mancera held several high-level government posts. In 1999-2002 he was Trade and Nafta Minister at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C., where he defended and expanded Mexico’s gains under Nafta and helped develop media, government, financial, and business alliances across the U.S. Javier Mancera also worked at the Ministry of the Economy as the liaison with the private sector and trade unions. In this capacity, he coordinated the work with private associations and chambers of commerce, and broke new ground in developing the first comprehensive database in use in the Mexican federal government related to congressional votes and the political positions of legislators. Javier Mancera also previously served as the senior Nafta counselor at the Embassy of Mexico, where he managed the legislative strategy and developed political and promotional materials. Javier Mancera also worked at the Office of the President as deputy director for Strategic Analysis.

In the private sector, Javier Mancera started and operated RANI, a highly successful press services company in Mexico City. Javier Mancera teaches seminars and gives conferences on Mexico-U.S. trade relations and on Mexico’s democratic transition to democracy. He taught Political Philosophy at Georgetown University and has published several articles, including “The Trade and Environment Debate” in Greening the Americas.

He holds a BA from Mexico’s Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, and obtained his Master’s degree from Georgetown University, where he is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Government.

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