Rice’s Baker Institute launches Mexico lecture series

Rice’s Baker Institute launches Mexico lecture series

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News Staff

Miguel Székely, Mexico’s undersecretary of higher education, will speak at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Nov. 5 on “Poverty Alleviation Programs and Economic Development in Mexico: Challenges for Policy Makers.”

MIGUEL SZEKELY

The lecture begins at 6 p.m. in the Kelly International Conference Facility at James A. Baker III Hall.

Székely previously served as undersecretary of planning and evaluation of Mexico’s Secretariat of Social Development. He has been a professor and researcher at El Colegio de México and the Instituto Tecnol