Jorge G. Castañeda is Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York University. He was Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 to 2003. Castañeda has been a professor of political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., and a visiting professor at Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of Paris. He is a member of the board of Human Rights Watch and lives in New York and Mexico City.