Miguel Pickard
Center for Economic and Political Investigations for Community Action
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miguel Pickard is a founding member of CIEPAC (Center for Economic and Political Investigations for Community Action) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, a non-governmental organization that accompanies grassroots groups that are building alternatives to global corporativism, through workshops and the dissemination of alternative information and analysis. He has worked at similar organizations both in Chiapas and in Mexico City for the past 20 years. He has written and collaborated in drawing up educational materials such as multilingual videos and booklets for use among campesinos and indigenous peoples on topics such as the WTO, the International Financial Institutions, the Plan Puebla Panama, the Free Trade Agreements and, most recently, on the SPPNA (Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America). He has also written for a wider public on the effects of neoliberalism in the global South, particularly in terms of South-North emigration.

Pickard holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a Masters in Economic Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).