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Silvia Giorguli Saucedo

President, El Colegio de México

Silvia Giorguli Saucedo has been President of El Colegio de México (Colmex) since 2015. She joined the faculty of the Center for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) at Colmex in 2003. She was the Director of CEDUA from 2009–2015, President of the Mexican Society of Demography from 2011–2012, and Founding Director of the magazine Coyuntura Demográfica. Her research focuses on issues of international migration from Mexico to the United States and its impact on education and the structure of Mexican families on both sides of the border. Currently, she is a co-researcher at the Mexican Migration Project, organized by Princeton University, University of Guadalajara, and Brown University. She has also been a participant in the Binational Dialogue on Mexican Migrants in the United States and Mexico, organized by Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) and Georgetown University. Dr. Giorguli studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), received an MA in demography from El Colegio, and in 2004 received her doctorate in sociology from Brown University. She was a Visiting Fellow in 2007–2008 at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 2018, she received the Horace Mann Medal from Brown University.