“Cuba and the World:
Crossroads and Change”
Saturday, March 15, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Closing Plenary Slideshow
Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center
Jorge Castañeda
Distinguished Global Professor at New York University
Former Foreign Minister of Mexico
Caleb Charles McCarry
Cuba Transition Coordinator
U.S. Department of State
Denis Baresch
Counselor, Economic and Financial Affairs (including Development)
Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations
Mauricio Font, Moderator
Director, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
 Jorge Castañeda is a renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and prolific writer, with an interest in Latin American politics, comparative politics and U.S.-Latin American relations. He is the former Foreign Minister of Mexico (2000-2003). Born in Mexico City in 1953, Dr. Castañeda received degrees from Princeton University and University of Paris. He has taught at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM), Princeton, Berkeley, and New UYork University (NYU). Among his many books are Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War (1993), The Mexican Shock (1995), Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (1997), and Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen (2000). His most recent book is Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants (2008).
 Caleb Charles McCarry was named Cuba Transition Coordinator in July 2005 as part of the U.S. State Department’s Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba (CAFC). In that capacity, McCarry is the senior U.S. official responsible for U.S. government planning to support a transition to democracy in Cuba through CAFC. Mr. McCarry previously served on the majority professional staff of the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to that, he worked for a bipartisan organization, The Center for Democracy.
 Denis Baresch is a Counselor in the Economic, Trade and Development Section of the European Commission's Delegation to the United Nations in New York. In this capacity, he covers development issues at the UN as well as UN reform, in particular System-Wide Coherence. In his previous position in the European Commission's Directorate General for Development, Denis was involved in the elaboration of and follow-up to the European Consensus on Development, as well as major international processes such as the Education for All Fast-Track Initiative. Denis was also responsible for the elaboration of the European Union's first Report on Policy Coherence for Development adopted in September 2007. Denis joined the European Commission in 1994, and worked initially in the policy oversight and analysis unit of the Directorate General for Information Society. He started his career as a Brussels-based European Union correspondent for the international news agency Reuters. He holds a Master's degree in journalism from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and graduated from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, France.
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