Jorge Dominguez, Antonio Madero Professor of Government and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard University will speak at the Raytheon Amphitheater, Egan Center, Northwestern University. 

He is a specialist in comparative politics and international relations in Latin America, and his current research is focused on U.S.-Latin American relations, U.S.-Mexican relations, public opinion and elections in Mexico, political transition in Cuba, and the assessment of democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean. He received his PhD in Government from Harvard in 1972, and his BA From Yale in 1967.

His latest books include Mexico’s Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000 (2003), (coeditor, with M. Shifter; chapter co-author) Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America (2003), (with Rafael Fernández de Castro) The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict (2001). He has also been the editor of a television series: "Crisis in Central America: A Four-Part Special Report”, Public Broadcasting System, 1985, including: "The Yankee Years;" "Castro's Challenge;" "Revolution in Nicaragua;" and "Battle for El Salvador. Professor Domínguez is a member of the editorial boards of a number of different international political publications among them the Political Science Quarterly since 1984, the Cuban Studies since 1974, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Puerto Rico) since 1995, Foreign Affairs in Spanish since 2000, and Latin American Research Review since 2003. He is also contributing Editor of Foreign Policy since 1997.

He is a member of the Executive Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and has been a member of FAS Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies since 1994. Between 1990 and 1994 he served as the president of the Institute of Cuban Studies. In 1982-83 he was President of the Latin American Studies Association, and in 1982 he became Chairman of the Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities.