Irma Gómez Cavazos

Degrees:

1997                 PhD in Economics (Texas A&M University, United States)
1991                 Masters in Science, specialising in econometrics (Texas A&M, United States)
1984                 Degree in Economics (ITESM, Monterrey Campus, Mexico)

Specialisations:

Principal: econometrics, economics of the environment and natural resources, industrial organisation
Secondary: marketing
Teaches the following subjects at EGADE (Graduate School of Business at Monterrey): Statistics in organisations, Environmental management strategy, Environmental economics, and Market studies seminar.

Career:

Irma Adriana Gómez has been a professor (currently on leave) at the Tecnológico de Monterrey since 1985 and, before taking up the post of General Co-ordinator of Ministry of Foreign Affairs counsellors, she was Deputy Academic Director of EGADE as well as being responsible for co-ordinating research into business strategy and sustainable development.  Since 1995, she has held the position of visiting professor at Texas A&M University and, since 2000, also at the University of California – Santa Barbara.  From 1990 to 1995, she was a research assistant at Texas A&M University.  She has also held various posts in enterprises and in financial institutions.
Published work:  she was co-author of a chapter in the publication “Ciencia Ambiental y Desarrollo Sostenible ”(Environmental science and sustainable development) in 1997, and of “Governance and Regulation: Decentralization in Mexico’s Water Sector” published by the Inter-American Development Bank in 1999, and has written several papers published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Empirical Economics, and Natural Resource Modelling.
She is a member of the Southern Economic Association of Environmental and Resource Economics and of the Colegio de Economistas de Nuevo León.   She is also an honorary member of Gamma Sigma Delta, the Honor Society of Agriculture.