The SMU Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center would like to invite

you to the 7th Annual Integration Symposium.

 

Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023 |  10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Location: HT Ballroom, Ground Floor, Hughes-Trigg Student Center, 

3140 Dyer St., Dallas, TX  75205

 

Parking: Binkley Garage, 3105 Binkley Ave. 

(between Airline Rd. & Dyer St.)

 

The symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Please click below for registration and choose the panels you will be attending.

 

Symposium Program

10:15-10:30 a.m.             Welcome Remarks by Thomas DiPiero, Dean, Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

 

10:30 - 11:10 a.m.           Panel I – Nearshoring

Luis Torres, Senior Business Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio Branch

Alejandro Nieto, President, N-GE LLC

Thomas Osang, Associate Professor & Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, SMU Department of Economics (Moderator)

 

11:10 - 11:20 a.m.           Coffee break

 

11:20 - 12:00 p.m.           Panel II – USMCA Dispute Resolution Mechanism: Auto sector and Transgenic Corn

Eduardo Romero Tagle, Senior Associate, Thomas H. Curran Associates, LLC

Michale K. Young, Professor of Law, Texas A&M School of Law

Raymond Robertson, Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy, Professor, and Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government, Texas A&M (Moderator)

 

12:00 -1:30 p.m.              Luncheon Keynote Program

Fernando Solís Cámara, Chief Communications and Institutional Relations Officer of Gruma and Banorte

Esteban Moctezuma, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States of America

Pia Orrenius, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Moderator)

 

1:30 - 2:10 p.m. Panel III – Energy

Alberto de la Peña Partner, Haynes & Boone, LLP

Adrian Duhalt Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

 

SMU Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center 

www.smu.edu/TexasMexico

Southern Methodist University (SMU)

3300 University Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75275-0117

214-768-4716 texasmexico@smu.edu