DIRSI - Dialogo Regional sobre Sociedad de la Informacion

(Ph.D. LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT in Austin) Full Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economica (CIDE) where she is Director of the Telecommunications Research Program, Telecom-CIDE. She is a member of the Steering Committee for DIRSI, a research network on ICT policy for development in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Social Witness for Transparency International Chapter Mexico and member of the Board of Advisors for Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC). Her current research focuses on ICT regulatory and public policies and has published in leading journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Latin American Studies and Information Technologies and International Development. She has authored two books:  Unfinished Business: Telecommunications Reform in Mexico by Praeger Press in 2000, and Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, by ITDG in 2007 coauthored with Hernán Galperin. She has authored numerous articles on telecommunications policy and regulation (Coauthored with Eugenio Rivera, Information Technologies and International Development, MIT Press Vol. 3 No. 2, 2006; Coauthored with C. Bonina “Mobile phone Usage in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions” in the Handbook of Mobile Communication and Social Change MIT Press, 2006).