In 2014, The University of Texas at El Paso will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1914 as the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy. Our Centennial offers not only an occasion to celebrate our distinguished history, but also a window through which we can begin contemplating our bright future as the first national research university with a 21st century student demographic. The Centennial Lecture Series invites noteworthy speakers to the UTEP campus to share their perspectives on a broad range of contemporary issues that are likely to impact our society, culture, and lives in the years ahead. We invite you to join us in exploring important and timely topics and in expanding our thinking about how they may help shape UTEP’s next 100 years.


President Diana Natalicio
The University of Texas at El Paso
SRE Consulate General of Mexico El Paso
U.S. Consulate General Ciudad Juárez México
The Honorable Jacob Prado
Consul General of Mexico
and
The Honorable Ian Brownlee
Consul General of the United States
cordially invite you to attend a UTEP Centennial Lecture
“Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead”
Shannon K. O'Neil
Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 5 p.m.
Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 106, UTEP Campus
Reception to follow presentation


Shannon O'Neil is Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank and publisher. Her expertise includes U.S.-Latin America relations, trade, energy and immigration. She is the author of Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead (Oxford University Press, 2013), which analyzes the political, economic and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last three decades and why these changes matter for the United States. She also directed CFR's Independent Task Force on U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality. Dr. O'Neil has testified before Congress on U.S. policy toward Mexico and she is a frequent commentator on major television and radio programs. She has also spoken at numerous academic, business and policy conferences. Her work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, Americas Quarterly, Política Exterior, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today, among others. Her blog, Latintelligence, analyzes developments in Latin America and U.S. relations in the region. She has lived and worked in Mexico and Argentina, and travels extensively in Latin America. She was a Fulbright scholar; a Justice, Welfare and Economics fellow at Harvard University; and has taught Latin American politics at Columbia University. Before turning to policy, Dr. O'Neil worked in the private sector as an equity analyst at Indosuez Capital and Credit Lyonnais Securities. She holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.