General Director:

Lucinda Vargas
lvargas@planjuarez.org

Lucinda Vargas is General Director of Juarez Strategic Plan Association. Prior to her current position, she worked as an economist at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (8 years) and at CIEMEX-Wharton (4 years) now known as Global Insight. Her research has focused on topics such as Mexico’s economy, the maquiladora industry, the economic relationship between Mexico and the United States and the North American Free Trade Agreement. She has also worked as research manager for the Bermudez Group in Juarez and as research associate at the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. and the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies Center at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has published articles and lectured on various economic topics in both Mexico and the United States. Vargas has a master`s degree in economics from The Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor´s degree in economics from The University of Texas at El Paso.