Baker Institute, Institute for Advanced Studies Host Seminar on U.S.-Mexico Relations

Contact: Michael Cinelli
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Baker Institute, Institute for Advanced Studies Host Seminar on
U.S.-Mexico Relations

The James A. Baker III Institute for
Public Policy at Rice University and the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton University hosted a Corporate Executive Seminar
today on the Rice campus on the subject of U.S.-Mexico relations and
the implications for hemispheric trade.

The seminar’s principal speakers were Luis Tellez, chief of
staff for the president of Mexico, and James A. Baker, III, 61st
Secretary of State and 67th Secretary of the Treasury. James D. Wolfensohn, the well-known investment banker recently nominated to
be president of the World Bank, moderated the event.

Other speakers included Rice president Malcolm Gillis, Edward P.
Djerejian, director of the Baker Institute, and Phillip A.
Griffiths, director of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Participants included corporate executives from the Houston area
and around the country, Albert O. Hirschman of the Institute for
Advanced Study, and Rice faculty.

The seminar was followed by a dinner in Tellez’s honor on the
Rice campus.

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