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Cultural Heritage's Consulting Council

Advisory Board of the National Cultural Heritage Department

The Tecnológico de Monterrey safeguards collections considered cultural heritage of Mexico. In order to strengthen the academic linkage, development and protection strategies of our collections, in 2019 the Advisory Board of the National Cultural Heritage Department was formed. This board is made up of renowned experts in the cultural field. Its main task is to provide recommendations on the previously mentioned strategies and it meets twice a year. 

Carmen Junco
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Carmen Junco
President of the Advisory Council of the School of Humanities and Education and Cultural Heritage of the Tecnológico de Monterrey

She has a degree in International Studies from the Universidad de Monterrey. He is a member of the FRISA Group, whose foundation promotes projects related to education. She has developed as a cultural promoter in a variety of projects, and has been director of the 3 History Museums of Nuevo León, as well as executive president of the Council for Culture and the Arts (CONARTE). She is a member of the Academic and Research Council of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, president of the Advisory Council of the School of Humanities and Education, a member of the Council of the Alfonso Reyes Chair, as well as member of the Advisory Council of Cultural Heritage of the same institution.

 

Judith Aurora Ruíz-Godoy
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Judith Aurora Ruíz-Godoy
Dean of the School of Humanities and Education.

Since 1998 she has served as a professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. She has been director of division, regional department and regional dean of the School of Humanities and Education.

She began her professional career at the United Nations Environment Program. She has worked and studied at the University of British Columbia in Canada, the University of Lleida in Spain, the Interamerican University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has more than 25 publications between chapters of books and journals nationally and internationally.

At the Tecnológico de Monterrey, she has been recognized with the Tower of Excellence, the Golden Sheep and Professors that Leave a Footprint. She has a PhD in Humanistic Studies with a specialty in applied ethics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, a Master in Modern Letters from the Universidad Iberoamericana and a degree in International Relations from the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

She is a member of the Advisory Council of Cultural Heritage of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Graciela de la Torre
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Graciela de la Torre
Holder of the Inés Amor International Chair in Cultural Management at UNAM

She has a degree in Art History from the Universidad Iberoamericana, graduated from the Getty Leadership Institute. She was Director of the San Carlos National Museum (1977-1989), where she carried out educational programs, establishing the first educational services for art museums. She was also director of the National Museum of Art (1989-2003), taking responsibility for the MUNAL 2000 renovation project. As General Director of Visual Arts at UNAM, she was the head of the conceptualization and direction of the University Museum of Contemporary Art, MUAC (2018-2020) .

 

She currently serves as Head of the Inés Amor International Chair in Cultural Management at UNAM, as Secretary of the Council of the Institute of Leadership in Museums, and as Executive Coordinator of the MUAC Board of Trustees.

 

She is a member of the Advisory Council of Cultural Heritage of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

 

Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros
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Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros
Art critic and curator.

He studied communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana, with a specialty in journalism. He was a founding columnist for the newspaper La Jornada and has been a columnist for El Financiero and Reforma. He works as an art critic and independent curator. He was named National Coordinator of Plastic Arts of the National Institute of Fine Arts, curator and museum designer of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts and Director of Visual and Performing Arts of the Metropolitan Autonomous University. He has given conferences on a national and international scale, and was co-director of the Ibero-American Art Criticism Colloquium.

Ane Elena Mallet
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Ana Elena Mallet
Curator specialized in modern and contemporary design.

She is a distinguished professor at national level at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the Tecnológico de Monterrey in the field of history of design and fashion in Mexico.

 

In February 2020, she curated the Clara Porset Diseño y Pensamiento exhibition for the Jumex Museum in Mexico City.

 

She was the curatorial advisor for the exhibitions: In a Cloud, In a Wall in a Chair. Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, for the Art Institute of Chicago (2019) and Found in Translation. Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in September 2017.

 

He co-curated with Lowery Sims, from The US-Mexico Border project. Place, Imagination and Possibility at The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) in Los Angeles (2017-2018), an exhibition that later traveled to Lille, France at La Maison de Follie Wazemmes, 2019. She was co-curator of Moderno: Design for Living room. Design in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela,1945-1970 at Americas Society in New York (February-June 2015)

 

He has curated more than two dozen exhibitions in museums in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. Previously, she held positions as curator at the Museo Soumaya (1996-1999) and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (1999-2001), as deputy director of programming at the Museo Rufino Tamayo (2001-2002) and as chief curator at the Museo del Objeto (2010-2011).

 

In 2012, she was curatorial advisor for the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) store with the project Destination: Mexico 

 

In addition to many other consulting positions, she served in the London Design Biennale Advisory Committee in 2016 and 2018.

 

In 2018, she was an advisor to the cultural project of the presidential campaign of La Coalición por México al Frente under the command of Mr. Raúl Padilla.

 

In 2020 she published the book Life in Art. Writings of Clara Porset (Editorial Alias) and in 2017 she published the book Silla Mexicana (Arquine / Conaculta): in 2014 she made La Bauhaus y el México Moderno. The design of van Beuren (Arquine / Conaculta).

 

She is currently working on a book about the designer Clara Porset and her collaborations with brands, companies and architects in the 20th century and an exhibition on the history of ceramics in Mexico.

 

She is a member of the Advisory Council of Cultural Heritage of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

 

Carlos Prieto
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Carlos Prieto Jacqué
Musician and member of the Mexican Academy of Language

Born in Mexico City, at the age of four he began studying the cello. His teacher was the Hungarian cellist Imre Hartman. Subsequently, he studied with Pierre Fournier in Geneva, with Leonard Rose in New York and at the Lomonosov State University in Moscow.

 

He has recorded a hundred works for cello and written 12 books, some of which have been translated into various languages.

 

He has received awards and recognitions from many different institutions, including the National Prize for the Arts and Sciences of Mexico; the Order of Letters and Arts of France; the Commandery of the Order of Civil Merit, of Spain; the Pushkin Medal, awarded by the President of Russia; awards from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the universities of Yale, Indiana, Texas Christian University and the International Harold Grammar Award from Cuba.

 

He is Emeritus Creator of the National System of Art Creators in Mexico.

 

In addition to his musical training, Carlos Prieto is a graduate of Engineering and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which appointed him in 1993 as a member of its Music and Theater Advisory Council. He is a member of the Fine Arts Advisory Council at the University of Austin Texas.

 

He was president of the Foundation of the Conservatory of Roses, the oldest conservatory in the American continent. He is a full member of the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, a full member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española and the Academia Chilena de la Lengua, and an honorary member of the Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua.

 

He is a member of the Advisory Council of Cultural Heritage of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

 

Consuelo Sáizar
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Consuelo Sáizar
Scholar and editor

She has a degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City; MPhil in Modern Society and Global Transformations, and PhD candidate in Sociology, both from the University of Cambridge, England.

 

She was general director of the Economic Culture Fund (2002-2009), president of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (2009-2012) and president of the Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean (2010-2012). Currently, she is pursuing an MSt in Intellectual History. at the University of Oxford, and is preparing the book "The memory industry", soon to be published.

 

She is a member of the Advisory Council of Cultural Heritage of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

 

Neil Safier
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Neil Safier
Scholar and specialist in special collections

He is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University and author of The Measurement of the New World (2008), a work awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for Historical Studies in France at the Institut Français d’Amerique. He was director of the John Carter Brown Library from 2013 to 2021. He currently serves on the administrative boards of several libraries and academic institutions, including the Society for the History of Science and the Cultural Heritage Advisory Council of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

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