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Professional Affiliation

(On leave) Chief of Staff, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico

Expert Bio

Lázaro Cárdenas Batel is a founding member of Mexico’s Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD). He was a Representative for the state of Michoácan in Mexico’s Congress from 1997 to 2000, served as a Senator from 2000 to 2006, and as Governor from 2002 to 2008. He has conducted research with the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and as a Senior Scholar at the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center's Latin American Program from 2008-2009 and again from 2011-2016 studying migration and electoral processes in Latin America. He has been a Chief of Mission for several electoral observation missions for the Organization of American States (OAS) and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center's Latin American Program.

He graduated with a degree in anthropology from Mexico’s National School of Anthropology and History (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, ENAH).

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center Project

"Strengthening Hometown Associations: Mexican Immigrants as Agents for Political Change in Mexico and the United States"