María Calderón is the senior program associate for the Mexico Program at the Inter-American Dialogue.
Before joining the Dialogue, she served as program associate at the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, where she supported high-level engagement on U.S.-Mexico bilateral issues. Prior to that, she worked at McLarty Associates in Washington, D.C., advising global companies with operations in Mexico. Earlier in her career, she was a research assistant at the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas (CAROLA) at Georgetown University, where she specialized in Mexico’s investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) framework and legal institutions.
Calderón also spent several years as a legal associate and project manager at EF&L Consulting Group in Mexico City, where she focused on administrative, environmental, and parliamentary law, as well as public policy. She has also taught law as an assistant professor at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City.
She holds an LLM in international legal studies from Georgetown University and a law degree from Universidad Panamericana. She also earned a certificate in corporate sustainability from NYU’s Stern School of Business.
