Jacqueline Peschard Mariscal is a Mexican sociologist who specializes in electoral integrity and democracy studies. She was President Commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information from 2009 until 2013. She also served as Counselor to the

Instituto Nacional Electoral The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) (English for ''National Electoral Institute'') (formerly Federal Electoral Institute (, IFE)) is an autonomous, public agency responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those relat ...

from 1997 to 2003. In 2010, she was elected president of the Iberoamerican Network of Data Protection (RIPD), which is a forum for promoting the universal right to data protection across Latin America. She currently teaches at the

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

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Education

Peschard has bachelor's and master's degrees from

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigge ...

and a doctorate from El Colegio de Michoacán.

Research

She has taught at

El Colegio de México El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English: The College of Mexico) is a Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in social sciences and humanities. The college was founded in 1940 by the Mex ...

, the

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology), commonly known as ITAM, is a private university. It is one of Mexico's most important institutions of higher learning; highly prestigious in the social sc ...

and the

. She has been a member of the

Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers) or SNI is a governmental agency established in Mexico in 1984 to promote both the quantity and quality of research in Mexico, especially in the sciences. In the 1980s, the countr ...

Level II since October 2004. In 2004, she was an advisor to the

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Electoral Assistance Division on election stability in

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Published works

*''Transparencia: Promesas y Desafíos (Grandes Problemas)'' (El Colegio de México Press, 2017), *''Mexico's Democratic Challenges: Politics, Government, and Society'' (Stanford University Press, 2010), *''El Federalismo Electoral en Mexico'' (Miguel Angel Porrua, 2008), *''2 de Julio Reflexiones y Alternativas'' (UNAM Press, 2007), *''Hacia la Sociología'' (Addison Wesley Longman, March 2000),

External links

Right to Know by Jacqueline Peschard

References

Living people Mexican sociologists Mexican women sociologists National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty El Colegio de México faculty Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Mexican women academics {{North America-sociologist-stub