Silvia Elena GIORGULI SAUCEDO

Bio

Sociologist and demographer, she has been president of El Colegio de Mexico since 2015. She studied a B.A. in Sociology at the National University (UNAM) and she got a Master in Demography at El Colegio de México. In 2004 she earned her PhD in Sociology from Brown University. She is Full Time Professor at the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies at El Colegio de México and director of the review Otros Diálogos (www.otrosdialogos.colmex.mx). She was president of the Mexican Demographic Society and she has participated in several academic committees in the Americas and in Europe. She is a member of the Colegio Nacional in Mexico. Her demographic research and her publications concentrate in three main research lines: (1) international migration in the Americas; (2) transitions to adulthood in Mexico and Latin America; (3) the intersection between demographic dynamics, education and public policies. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator of the Meosamerican Migration Project (El Colegio de México and Brown University) and of the Recent Immigration Survey in Latin American Cities (El Colegio de México, Brown University and Universidad de la República in Uruguay).