Mónica Serrano

Professor of International Relations at the El Colegio de México

Mónica Serrano is Professor of International Relations at El Colegio de México and a member of the International Faculty of the Doctorate on Organised Crime at the University of Milan. She is also an Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a member of the Council of the United Nations University. Her research examines the intersections of security, organized crime, drug trafficking, and human rights, with a focus on their implications for regional and global governance.

She was the founding Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and has held senior research positions at the Ralph Bunche Institute, the Center for International Studies at Oxford University, and served as co-editor of Global Governance. She has taught at Oxford University, the University of London’s Institute of Latin American Studies, and the University of Milan.

Her recent publications include Human Rights Regimes in the Americas (2009), After Oppression: Transitional Justice in Latin America and Eastern Europe (2012), Mexico’s Security Failure (2012), and The International Politics of Human Rights (2014). She serves on the editorial boards of Conflict, Security and Development, Global Responsibility to Protect, Foro Internacional, and Perfiles Latinoamericanos.