Amb. Rodrigo Labardini is Diplomat-in-Residence at the Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD) and Professor in Practice at ADA University. He teaches courses on international legal affairs, including treaty law, human rights, humanitarian law, transnational criminal law, extradition, and Eurasian geopolitics and energy. Prior to joining IDD and ADA, he served as Ambassador of Mexico to Azerbaijan. He has almost four decades of experience in international negotiations in bilateral and multilateral issues. Other previous positions include: Ambassador to Nicaragua, Deputy Legal Adviser to Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, Director General for Human Rights and Democracy in the same ministry, and Director General for International Labor Policy in the country’s Labor Ministry. During his diplomatic career, he served as Chair of the Seventh Specialized Conference on International Private Law of the Organization of American States and the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He was also responsible for the international litigation of Mexican cases, including at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and the IAHR-Court.

Read the papers authored by Amb. Rodrigo Labardini:

• Dealing with a Decrease in the Caspian Sea Level
• Water Diplomacy
• Desiccation in the Caspian Sea: On the Need to Implement Domestic and Regional Countermeasures
• Conflating or Encumbering Intentions?: North-South Corridor Possibilities
• The C5+1 Upgrade: Heightened Importance of the Silk Road Region for American Foreign Policy?
• The Silk Road Turned a Middle Corridor: History in the Making
• A Hinge in Eurasia: Regional Infrastructure and Geopolitical Changes