About

Mauricio Benítez is executive director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, where he manages general operations and the Institute's work toward its strategic objectives.

Prior to joining the Kellogg team, Benítez was associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago. Before that, he was executive director of the Mexico Office of the David Rockefeller Center of Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Prior to moving into higher education administration, he was assistant professor of political science at Chapman University, specializing in comparative and Latin American politics.

Benítez has been a visiting scholar at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego and the Hayward R. Alker postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. He holds an MA and PhD in political science from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively.