Denise Dresser

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Denise Eugenia Dresser Guerra (born 22 January 1963) is a Mexican political analyst, writer, and university professor. She is currently a faculty member of political science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where she has taught since 1991. She has also served as visiting professor at Georgetown University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Dresser earned her Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University after completing her undergraduate work at the prestigious Colegio de México in Mexico City. She was a Fullbright scholar and has received research grants from the Ford and the Rockefeller Foundations, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Center for International Studies at Princeton University, and the Organization of American States. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California, a senior visiting fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington D.C., and a fellow at the Salzburg Seminar.

Dr. Dresser is the author of numerous publications on Mexican politics and United States-Mexico relations. Currently she is author of a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the news weekly Proceso. She is the former host of the political talk show "Entre Versiones" on Mexican television. She has published numerous opinion pieces in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and La Opinion, and is a frequent commentator on Mexican politics in the U.S. and Canadian media.