Roberto Salinas


BA in Political Economics and Philosophy from Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA; Masters and PhD in Philosophy and Political Theory from Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

Representative of The Economist Intelligence Unit in Mexico and President of the Mexico Business Forum of The Economist Conferences.

President of Alamos Alliance, entity that organizes one of the most important colloquiums in economics for the Latin-American region in Alamos, Sonora.

Visiting professor of Political Economics in Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.  He was Adjunct Professor of Political Economics in Escuela Libre de Derecho (1989-2001) and the Law School of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1990-1993).

He was a weekly columnist for The Economist, in the column  “Of Capital Importance”, 1993-2011. He has published more then 2,000 articles in national and international media like The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Barron´s, Investor’s Business Daily, International Economy, among others.

He has published several specialized essays in books and monographs in topics such as free trade, environment, modernization and economic reform, monetarism, exchange rate policy and privatization.  His work has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Journal of Commerce, Business Week, The Economist, Times, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, UPI, Associated Press, Barron´s and other Latin American Media.