Mexico – U.S. Relations: The Importance and Implications of Our Partnership
Miguel E. Basáñez was ratified by the Mexican Senate as Ambassador of Mexico to the United States on September 2, 2015. Prior to his appointment as ambassador, he was professor of values, culture and development at the Fletcher School of Tufts University and director of special research and educational projects. In Mexico, he worked to expand democracy by introducing public opinion polls in the 1988 elections.
His career has been a combination of public service (1968-1988), opinion polling (1988-2008), and academia (1970-2015). In the public sector, Basáñez worked as director general of opinion polling for the office of the president, chief of staff for the governor of the state of Mexico, attorney general of the state of Mexico, and chief of staff for the secretary of energy.
In the academic arena he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. He is the author or editor of 14 books, including: The Struggle for Hegemony in Mexico, 1968-1980 (1981); The Pulse of the Presidential Terms: 20 Years of Crisis in Mexico (1990); North American Trajectory: Trade, Politics and Values (with R. Inglehart) (1994); Human Beliefs and Values: A Cross-cultural Sourcebook Based on the 1999-2002 Values Surveys (with R. Inglehart) (1998). He has a Ph.D. in political sociology from the London School of Economics.
(Source: Mexican Embassy website)