Andrés Roemer


Andrés Roemer Slomianski is UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Social Change and the Free Flow of Knowledge. Currently he is a senior research fellow at Columbia University.
He is a writer, philanthropist, and an internationally recognized public intellectual who is passionate about critical thinking and human rights. Dr. Roemer is a pioneer in creating and implementing key ways of promoting human rights, peace, democracy, science, art, and culture. Through his diverse roles, Roemer has shaped intellectual discourse on public affairs all around the world.
Grandson of the orchestral conductor Ernesto Roemer, he grew up in Mexico City. He has received various cultural awards and prizes, and has created and produced several television programs.
Roemer is honorary curator and co-founder of Ciudad de las Ideas along with Grupo Salinas, an annual festival in the Mexican state of Puebla, as well as the creator of "Rethinking G20: Designing the Future" pre-G20 of 2012 G-20 Los Cabos summit in 2012, of the "Mex-I-Am" and co-funder of the "Haus der Musik", museum in Puebla City.
Andrés Roemer has a PhD in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy of University of California at Berkeley, where he earned the Academic Distinction for his thesis regarding water Public Policies. He earned a Master's in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He specialized on Cultural Policies, Law and Economics and Evolutionary Psychology. And member of several economic, public policy and cultural associations in the United States, Mexico, Latin-America and Europe.
He is also author of sixteen books and two plays that treat diverse topics. His works are characterized for his deep analysis of non-market activities through economic analysis of law such as: happiness, art, sexuality, love, water, soccer, law, economics, crime, evolutionary psychology, government and public policy. The San Francisco Chronicle called him a "rare public figure who deserves to be called a Renaissance man." Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, speaks to Dr. Roemer's success in all he has done in the following quotation:
“Andrés Roemer, Mexico’s newly-arrived ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, is not only a diplomat, political analyst, attorney, economist, think tank founder, and author of 16 books and two award-winning plays. He is also a hero.”
Andrés is devoted to empowering people and has orchestrated pivotal international meetings to encourage critical thinking and promote social responsibility, which made him a distinguished member of the advisory board of the Mexican National Human Rights Commission, elected by the Senate.
He has also won several national and international awards, with an emphasis on the prestigious Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award from the University of California at Berkeley, obtained only by great personalities such as President of Ecuador, Galo Plaza; President of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; UN Commissioner, Sadako Ogata; Hans Hollein the Pritzker Architecture Prize; President of Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Yuan Tseh "YT" Lee Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Also Microsoft Corporation created the Microsoft Award "Andres Roemer" for distinction in service to the community of scholars. He also won the Promotion of Science Award in 2010 from the Nobel Prize Mario Molina and the former president of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Arturo Menchaca, and was awarded the National Theatre Award "Emilio Carballido" as best national author for his play The Other Einstein in 2009. Also, he received the International Sephardic Leadership Award, granted by the American Sephardi Federation, in New York City, in May 2017.
Mexican diplomat, he was the UNESCO Mexico's Ambassador in Paris, France. Until May 31, 2016 he served as General Consul of Mexico in San Francisco, California.
Since 2017, Andrés Roemer is a partner-co-founder of the first franchise of The School of Life in Mexico. Since then, The School of Life Mexico is in activities through the sale of materials and books that seek to build emotional intelligence at personal and professional levels

Education

Dr. Roemer completed two undergraduate degrees, a BA in economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City graduating with honours and a Bachelor in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico where he graduated with honours as well. He did a master's degree in Public Administration at Harvard University where he earned the "Don K. Price" Award for Academic Distinction and Commitment within the Public Sector. Roemer also has a Ph.D. in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy of University of California at Berkeley, where he earned the Academic Distinction for his thesis regarding water Public Policies and he was appointed Notorious Alumni of the Goldman School of Public Policy. He specialized on Cultural Policies, Law and Economics and Evolutionary Psychology.

Academic positions

Currently he is a senior research fellow at Columbia University. As off 2016, Dr. Roemer is associate lecturer at the faculty of Singularity University. Between 2011 and 2013, he was senior research fellow at the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.
From 1987 until 2000, Roemer worked as professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México teaching the courses "Law and Economics", "Economics of Culture and Art", "Microeconomics", "Public Policy," "Economics of Crime" and "Law and Economics." He also served as professor within the Master in Public Administration programme and taught courses such as "Public Policies" and "Economic Analysis of Law" at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas 1997 to 1999.
Between 1992 and 1994, he was professor in the Master in Public Policy between Mexico and the United States at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1990, he worked as assistant professor at John F. Kennedy School of Government and taught the course entitled "Leadership and Mobilization of Human Resources " and the Theodore Panayotuo course on "Economics of Natural Resources". Additionally, he created and developed the course entitled "Press, Politics and Public Policy: The Latin American Case.”
Dr. Roemer has given lectures at , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Escuela Superior de Economia y Negocios in El Salvador, the Central University of Venezuela, the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the University of San Martin de Porres in Peru. He has lectured as well in the Externado University of Colombia and the Pontifical Xavierian University in Colombia, at the Diego Portales University in Chile, the University of Belgrano and Torcuato di Tella University in Argentina, in the Brazilian Institute of Public Law, in the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, in the London School of Economics part of the University of London, in the Inter-American Development Bank, and commencement speaker International Midwestern University, UC Berkeley and in several other American universities such as Boston University, Harvard University, Phoenix, Stanford and Royal Society of Arts.

Civil service and public appointments

Dr. Roemer was Mexico's Ambassador to UNESCO based in Paris, France, ratified by Senate of Mexico on April 14, 2016. Regarding his time in this position, the website http://www.unwatch.org/ defines Dr. Roemer as a hero. By May 31 of same year he served as Consul General of Mexico in San Francisco, California, US, also ratified by the Standing Committee of Congress of the Union, July 31, 2013, and sent by the Federal Executive, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto. From 2010 until 2013, he was a member of the advisory board of the National Human Rights Commission certified by the Senate of the Republic in 2010
From 2000 to 2003, he was Secretary Technician "B" of Cultural Policy in the National Council for Culture and Arts. From 1998 to 1999 he worked as Technical Secretary of the Social Development Cabinet in the Office of former president Ernesto Zedillo and personal advisor in special topics for the New Federalism Project in Mexico from 1995 to 1997. Also, between 1994 and 1995, Dr. Roemer worked as the coordinator of strategy of the Ministry of the Interior.
He was also advisor to the president Carlos Salinas de Gortari for his presidential campaign, within the area of Guillermo Raul Ruiz de Teresa. Between 1988 and 1990 he served in the National Nutrition Commission and from 1985 to 1988, served as head of the Department of Econometric Analysis at the Secretary of Fisheries, now known as Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.
Roemer was removed as Mexico's ambassador to UNESCO following his refusal to cast the country's support of the Occupied Palestine Resolution. Despite this, Mexico later retracted its support for the document and instead moved to vote against the resolution.

Professional profile

Since 2007, Roemer is cofounder and honorary curator with Ricardo Salinas Pliego of the "Ciudad de las Ideas Brilliant Minds International Festival." He was the creator of "Rethinking G20: Designing the Future" pre-G20 of 2012 G-20 Los Cabos summit in 2012 and the "Mexiam" Cultural Festival in San Francisco, Cal in 2014 and cofunder of the Casa de la Música de Viena en Puebla From 2003 to 2015 he created and produced several television programs; in addition to being a writer and columnist in many journals and newspapers El Universal and La Crónica de Hoy.
From 1997 to 1998, he was principal for Latin America regarding public policy, business and leadership issues in Booz Allen Hamilton, Mexico City.
He was also the founding president of the executive commission of the Mexican Academy of Law and Economics, the co-founder, member and chairman of the executive commission of the Latin American and Caribbean Association of Law and Economics, and member in the international area of the Mexican School of Lawyers, and president of the Alumni Association Fulbright-Garcia Robles.

Main ideas

Roemer has mainly focused his work on the economic analysis of the nonmarket forces, i.e. those goods or services that cannot be directly evaluated within the economy notwithstanding they significantly influence the economic system, such as feelings and emotions. Furthermore, he coined the terms "demonocracy" e "ideasta." Demonocracy is the gradual deceit or manipulation of the legitimate leader of a democratic country over the decisions of the citizens to choose and vote, restricting their true freedom and individual rights; it is a failure of democracy:
The reform to Article 41 of the Mexican Constitution, Chavez in Venezuela, Correa in Ecuador and Morales in Bolivia, among others, teaches us that a democratic election does not guarantee democratic institutions. Even if the majority elects a government, this is not going to be a democratic one if it begins making legal amendments that would contain power at the expense of political rights and civil liberties.
The term ideasta refers to the person who formulates creative and revolutionary ideas about the world; the one who comes up with new ways of thinking in order to create more knowledge, novel paradigms, innovations and inventions in order to enhance the mind and open multiple horizons, allowing the growth and development of the individual and the world, because ideas:

Publications

Dr. Roemer has conducted a series of PhD thesis, as well as a Negotiation Board Game, more than 1,000 television programs, has created more than 300 radio programs, has participated in more than 30 books and specialized journals and magazines. He has authored the following books:
Dr. Roemer has received numerous awards and recognitions in a national and international level:
Furthermore, he is member of The American Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, The European Association of Law Economics, The Law and Economics American Association, co-founder member of the Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics at Harvard University, vice president of the Alumni Society of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico and director of cultural activities at the School of Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.