Isabel Flores Alcázar is the Director for the BA program in International Relations at ITAM, where she has worked since August 2014. Prior to this role, she served as the Academic Coordinator of the same program.

 

She teaches courses including Introduction to International Relations, Global Development Agenda, and Thesis Seminar. Additionally, she serves as advisor for research papers and thesis on topics such as international development, education, childhood, and more recently, environmental finance. Isabel is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica.

 

She began her professional career in 2009, collaborating with Dr. Rafael Segovia Canosa at Colegio de México (COLMEX) for two years. She then joined the Coordination of Decentralized Bodies and the Parastatal Sector of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), where she was in charge of overseeing the institutions responsible for artistic and cultural policy. In addition, she engaged in independent research projects with academics from different universities across the country.

 

Isabel earned a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from ITAM, a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University, and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences, with a concentration in International Relations, from UNAM. Her research focuses on the international development cooperation regime, educational cooperation between México and the United States through the Fulbright-García Robles Program, and academic exchanges as a source of soft power.