Antonio Ortiz-Mena is the president and chief executive officer of AOM Advisors, where he provides strategic counsel on geopolitics, trade, and foreign investment to clients in sectors such as energy and manufacturing, with a focus on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the Americas at large. 

Ortiz-Mena is a trade and foreign investment expert with more than three decades of experience advising decision-makers in government and academia, as well as Fortune 500 C-suite executives. He previously served as a partner at Dentons Global Advisors and as senior vice president at the Albright Stonebridge Group. 

He has led economic affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, DC, where he helped create the US-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue and served on Mexico’s original North American Free Trade Agreement negotiating team. 

Ortiz-Mena has taught at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and has published over thirty book chapters and articles. He serves on advisory boards including the Kyndryl Institute, the University of California San Diego’s Center for US-Mexican Studies, and the Orchestra of the Americas. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, chairs the USMCA Review Committee of the Mexican Foreign Trade Council, and has been a member of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations for over twenty years. 

He holds a PhD in international political economy from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a Fulbright scholar, and an MA in Latin American economics from University College London and the London School of Economics. 

Ortiz Mena was an event speaker at the Dialogue.