"Trust is the basis for the country's stability and prosperity. We need public finances, rigorous cost-benefit criteria for the exercise of public spending, maximum transparency in the workings of government and guaranteed property rights are indispensable."
Roberto Salinas is a renowned Mexican economist, expert in economic development, exchange and monetary policies, international trade and property rights. He is Director of the Latin American Center of the Atlas Network and President of the Alamos Alliance colloquium.
He has published more than 2,000 articles in media such as El Economista, Nexos, The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily and more. He has been an economic commentator for the news program "Hechos" on TV Azteca, Radio Red, Radio Fórmula, CNN Latin America, Reuters, BBC and is currently an analyst on Carlos Mota's program, "Es negocio", on ADN40.
He has lectured more than 1,000 times on four continents. He has testified before the United States House of Representatives on free trade and economic policy in Mexico. He is an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, and a Senior Fellow at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation.
He has taught courses in Political Economy and Liberal Thought at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and the Francisco Marroquín University, in Guatemala. He studied Political Economy, History and Philosophy, and obtained a PhD in Philosophy and Political Theory from Purdue University, Indiana, in the U.S. He was recognized by Líderes Mexicanos magazine in its February 2009 issue.
