Ms Monica Mendez Caballero

Ms Monica Mendez Caballero is a Mexican diplomat, currently on the Embassy of Mexico in Nigeria as Head of Consular Section and Gender Liaison. Monica’s practitioner experience and research interests converge on foresight, strategic planning and policy design for inclusive peace and development.  As a researcher she conducts gendered analysis of global security. As government official, she has worked on Security Sector Reform in Mexico, and on an international comparative analyses of empirical examples to foster institutional strength of justice and security agencies from Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, and the United States. Monica joined in 2018 the judge panel for the Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award, annual recognition of innovative strategic foresight projects. Since 2019 Monica is a member of the OECD Government Foresight Community, WIIS (Women in International Security), and Amassuru: Women in Security and Defense in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ms. Mendez holds a MAS in International and European Security from the University of Geneva and the GCSP, an MBA from IPADE Business School and a BA in Political Science from ITAM. She is an alumna of the GCSP through its flagship Leadership in International Security Course, the School of International Futures, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, and the Near East South Asia Center For Strategic Studies. She regularly contributes to GCSP executive education programmes and publications.
 

Recent Publications:

• The adhesion process to NATO in five steps (In Spanish), July 2022.
• Contributed to GCSP Peace and Security 2025 publication p. 18, April 2021.
• GCSP policy brief on domestic violence, November 2020.