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Dr. '''María de Lourdes Dieck-Assad''' is a Mexican [[economics|economist]] who has held positions in academia, an international organization, government and business, including professorships in the United States and Mexico as well as serving as Mexico's ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the institutions of the European Union from 2004 to 2007. For her service in this capacity, she was awarded the  Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Crown (Belgium)|Order of the Crown of Belgium]].
She attended the [[Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education]] (ITESM from its name in Spanish) from 1971 to 1975, graduating with a bachelor's in economics. She received her master's in 1976 from [[Vanderbilt University]] and her doctorate in the same field from the [[University of Texas in Austin]] in 1983 with a dissertation entitled “The effect of economic shocks under different monetary procedures and different economic structures,” which she wrote as an intern at the [[Brookings Institution]] .<ref name=imiqorg>{{cite web |url=http://www.imiq.org/albums/16/CV-MLDA.pdf |title=CURRICULUM VITAE Dra. María de Lourdes Dieck Assad |publisher=Instituto Mexicano de Ingenieros Químicos |language=Spanish |accessdate=April 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304121742/http://www.imiq.org/albums/16/CV-MLDA.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=transborder>{{cite web |url= http://nacts.asu.edu/partners/bios/board-of-advisors/ambassador-maria-de-lourdes-dieck-assad  |title= Ambassador Maria de Lourdes Dieck-Assad |publisher= North American Center for Transborder Studies  |accessdate=April 7, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="egap2">{{cite web|title=Dra. María de Lourdes Dieck Assad|date=8 March 2016 |url=https://tecreview.tec.mx/2016/03/08/uncategorized/como-transformarse-en-una-lider/|publisher=EGAP-ITESM|language=Spanish|accessdate=March 8, 2016}}</ref> She has said that she wanted to work to make an impact on Mexico since she was studying as an undergraduate, mostly in economic and social issues.<ref name=dejarde>{{cite news |url= http://www.publimetro.com.mx/noticias/nunca-dejar-de-prepararse-maria-de-lourdes-dieck/njim!lRya2ZpAfcuaZtcB4WbQ/ |title= Nunca dejar de prepararse, María de Lourdes Dieck  |date= September 13, 2010 |publisher= Publimetro |location=Mexico City |language=Spanish |trans-title=Never stop preparing yourself, María de Lourdes Dieck  |accessdate=April 7, 2013 }}</ref>
Her husband is economist Pedro Quintanilla Gómez-Noriega. They lived in [[Austin, Texas]] for five years, where they both pursued doctoral studies in Economics. Then they went to live in Washington, DC where both worked. They returned to Mexico in 1992. When an opportunity came for Dieck-Assad to represent Mexico in Europe, she received the full support of her husband and her three children, who were already in high school and college.<ref name=dejarde/>
==Career==
Dieck-Assad's main passion is macroeconomics, working to create cross-sector relationships among the business, government and academic sectors, holding various positions in all these areas.<ref name=dejarde/><ref name=newsgain>{{cite web |url= http://news.gain.org/post/42846962545/dr-maria-de-lourdes-dieck-assad-president-graduate  |title= Dr. María de Lourdes Dieck-Assad, President, Graduate Schools of Business and Government, ITESM – Tecnológico de Monterrey  |date=February 11, 2013 |publisher= ITESM Global Adaptation Institute
|accessdate=April 7, 2013 }}</ref> Sub specialties include money and banking, quantitative methods, economic planning and economic development.<ref name=egap2/>
Her first major position was director of the economics department of the [[Anahuac University Network|Universidad Anáhuac]] in [[Mexico City]] from 1977 to 1978.<ref name=imiqorg/> She later became a tenured professor as well as the head of the economics department at [[Trinity Washington University|Trinity University]] in Washington DC from 1987 to 1992, then a professor of economics at ITESM from 1992 to 2002.<ref name=imiqorg/><ref name=transborder/><ref name="DolanMartín2005">{{cite book|last1=Dolan|first1=Shimon|last2=Martín|first2=Irene|title=Los 10 mandamientos para la dirección de personas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVPO2uYy734C&pg=PA16|accessdate=11 April 2011|date=2004|publisher=Gestión 2000|isbn=978-84-8088-720-5|page=16}}</ref> From 1995 to 2002, she has head of the doctoral program in doctoral program in management at ITESM (EGADE) of ITESM as well as working with the Center for Strategic Studies.<ref name=imiqorg/><ref name="StaffCouncil2006">{{cite book|last1=Staff|first1=Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean|last2=Council|first2=United Nations. Economic and Social|title=Economic and Social Council Official Records 2004: Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5LUAnJ7J2sC&pg=PA175|accessdate=11 April 2011|date=2006-01-30|publisher=United Nations Publications|isbn=978-92-1-121561-8|page=175}}</ref> From 2002 to 2003 she was chief of advisors to the secretary of the State Department as well as to the secretary of Economy.<ref name="StaffCouncil2006"/><ref name=egap2/> In 2003, she was appointed by President [[Vicente Fox]] as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs for Economic Relations and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<ref name="StaffCouncil2006"/> Dieck-Assad was then appointed by Fox in 2004 as the ambassador to [[Belgium]] and [[Luxembourg]], where she also served as the Mission Head to the [[European Union]] and the permanent representative to the [[European Council]].<ref name=egap2/><ref name=transborder/> She returned to Mexico in 2007 to become the director of the Escuela de Gobierno, Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of ITESM campus system.<ref name=imiqorg/><ref name=egap2/>
She has worked as a consultant to various companies and institutions such as the, Asesoría Estratégica Económica y Financiera, Consultores Asociados, [[Bancomer]], the government of the state of Nuevo León, with whom she worked on market and country studies, financial sector analysis and the determination of prices for public holdings. She worked as a consultant as well for the [[World Bank]] from 1985 to 1987 in Washington, DC.<ref name=imiqorg/><ref name=transborder/><ref name=egap2/>
Dieck-Assad has given courses, seminars and talks at over 85 conferences to students at various levels, businessmen and more in Mexico, the United States, Latin America and Europe. These generally center on topics such as macroeconomics, theoretical economics, monetary policy, global economics, competitiveness, globalization and more, focusing on Mexico, Latin American and global issues.<ref name=imiqorg/><ref name=egap2/>
Recognitions include the Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Crown (Belgium)|Order of the Crown of Belgium]], the country's highest award for her work as the ambassador from Mexico as well as best evaluated professor at ITESM. She also received tenure at Trinity University and scholarships with the Brookings Institution, the [[Sally Butler International Fellowship]] from the [[American Association of University Women]], membership in [[Phi Kappa Phi]], a fellowship from [[CONACYT]], a [[Fulbright Scholarship]] and was named the best student in Mexico (Ateneo de México) while an undergraduate, for achieving the highest grade point average at the end of her undergraduate studies in economics at ITESM, class of 1975.<ref name=transborder/><ref name=imiqorg/>
==Published works==
She collaborated with Nobel Prize winner [[Paul A. Samuelson]], [[William D. Nordhaus]] and [[José de Jesús Salazar]] on “Macroeconomía con aplicaciones a México” (1998, 2001) as well as “Macroeconomía con aplicaciones a América Latina” (2006) with the same co authors.<ref name=imiqorg/> She also contributed the “Violence and ungovernability in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Mexican case” chapter to a book called “Regional integration and social cohesion (RISC).” (egap)
She has had articles published in journals such as the [[St. Thomas University School of Law|University of St. Thomas]] Law Journal, Revista Integratec, Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior and the International Journal of the [[Canadian Institute of International Affairs]] as well as papers for conferences such as Ciclo de conferencias internacionales: Conociendo China at Universidad Virtual, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Congreso Nacional de Maquiladoras and the II International conference of management in the new millennium: Iberoamerica looks at the future.<ref name=egap2/>
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==See also==
* [[List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty]]
* {{cite web|title=Most widely held works by Maria de Lourdes Dieck-Assad|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89616820/|publisher=[[WorldCat]]}}
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