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Foreign minister
Second annual Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science features
alumnus, Mexican leader.
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Luis Ernesto Derbez, secretary of foreign affairs of Mexico who received
a doctorate in economics from Iowa State University, will return to campus
on Monday, Nov. 3, for the second Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science.
Derbez will speak at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. The
lecture is free and open to the public.
Prior to assuming his current position, Derbez was Mexico's economic minister.
Prior to that he worked for the World Bank for 14 years where he was responsible
for the regional areas of Chile, Western and Central Africa, India, Nepal
and Bhutan, among others.
While with the World Bank he directed, structured, implemented and supervised
Multilateral Economic Assistance and Structural Adjustment Programs in
Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala.
Derbez has also worked as an independent consultant for the World Bank
Mexico City Office and for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington,
D.C. He has worked on economic recovery programs for countries in critical
situations, including Honduras and Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch destroyed
a substantial part of their territory and economy.
The annual Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science was established
by Thomas and Elizabeth Phelps and Charles and Kathleen Manatt. The lecture
will be held during the fall of each academic year and will initially
focus on significant developments in the area of international political
economy that have occurred during the previous year. The aim will be to
discuss how politics and economics affect one another and how these issues
are transnational in scope, as well as how the issues affect and are affected
by the state of Iowa.
The Manatts and Phelps have also established the Manatt-Phelps Endowed
Chair in International Political Economy in Iowa State’s Department
of Political Science.
A former chair of the California Democratic Party, Ambassador Manatt (class
of 1958 chaired the Democratic National Committee from 1981-85, and co-chaired
the 1992 Clinton/Gore presidential campaign. From 1991 through March 2001,
Ambassador Manatt was U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. After
his post ended, Ambassador Manatt returned to his law firm’s Washington,
D.C. office to found Manatt Jones Global Strategies, a subsidiary of the
firm that develops and implements strategies to expand clients’
businesses and facilitate their effective competition in global markets.
Originally from Audubon, Iowa, Ambassador Manatt and fellow Iowa State
and George Washington University School of Law graduate Thomas D. Phelps
(class of 1959), founded the law firm now known as Manatt, Phelps &
Phillips, LLP, in Los Angeles. The firm currently has offices in several
cities in California and Mexico, in addition to an office in Washington,
D.C. The firm began by providing legal services to the banking community,
but has grown to offer international legal and consulting services to
the financial, energy, healthcare, entertainment, telecommunications,
technology, agriculture, restaurant, hotel, retail and manufacturing industries.
Ambassador Manatt also founded the First Los Angeles Band and served as
its Chairman from 1973-89.
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November 3-16, 2003
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