Jesus Velasco was formerly professor in Tarleton State University. From 1998 to 2001 he served as Chairman of the Division of International Studies at the Center for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies also at Harvard, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the US-Mexican Center at Rice University. Velasco is the author of four books. His publications include, with Rodolfo de la Garza. Bridging the Border: Transforming Mexico-US Relation, Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield, 1997; Neoconservatives in US Foreign Policy Under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: Voices Behind the Throne. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press and The Wilson Center, 2010 (the book was published in 2016 in Spanish by El Fondo de Cultura Economica); American Presidential Elections in Comparative Perspective: The World is Watching, Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2019, and with Tony Payan and Adolfo Lopez de la Osa of The Future of US-Mexican Relations: Foresight to 2040, Arte Publico press, 2020. He has published several articles in specialized journals of Mexico, the US, and Canada. Currently, he is writing a book on the relationship between the Mexican government and American Transnational Intellectuals from 1920 to 2006.
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