Dr. Agustina Giraudy is a full professor (tenured) of Political Science in the School of International Service at the American University (AU). She was previously an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University and a lecturer at the Torcuato Di Tella University and the San Andrés University, in Argentina.

She also worked as a consultant for organizations such as the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).

Currently, her work focuses on the analysis of subnational and national democracies and semi-authoritarian regimes, unequal access to public goods, and institutional accountability. Her research explores the causes and consequences of unequal territorial access in LATAM and the U.S., and how this affects citizens’ rights in all spheres: civil, political, economic, and social. 

She is the author of multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and two books, including Democrats and Autocrats. Pathways of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Continuity within Democratic Countries (Oxford University Press, 2015).

She has been recognized with several awards, including the Dean’s Summer Research Award (AU, 2022) and the Best Journal Article of Regional and Federal Studies published in 2019 (2020), among many others.

Agustina Giraudy joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democracy and Populism for the School of Social Sciences and Government and for the School of Government and Public Transformation.

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
• M.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
• B.A., Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella 

• Alcañiz, I., & Giraudy, A. (2022). From international organizations to local governments: how foreign environmental aid reaches subnational beneficiaries in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Environmental Politics, 32(4), 663–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2124004

• Giraudy, A., & Niedzwiecki, S. (2021). Multi-level governance and subnational research: Similarities, differences, and knowledge accumulation in the study of territorial politics. Regional & Federal Studies, 32(3), 393–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.1941900

• Diaz-Rioseco, D. and Giraudy, A. (2021), Unconditional Transfers Are Not Oil: The Economic Foundations of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Reproduction. Bull Lat Am Res, 40: 730-749. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13219

• Cyril Bennouna, Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada, Eva Rios, Richard Snyder, Paul Testa, Pandemic Policymaking in Presidential Federations: Explaining Subnational Responses to Covid-19 in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 51, Issue 4, Fall 2021, Pages 570–600, https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjab025

• Benton, A. (2021). Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics. Edited by Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada, and Richard Snyder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Perspectives on Politics, 19(1), 295–297. doi:10.1017/S1537592720004326

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Dr. Agustina Giraudy is a full professor (tenured) of Political Science in the School of International Service at the American University (AU). She was previously an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University and a lecturer at the Torcuato Di Tella University and the San Andrés University, in Argentina.

She also worked as a consultant for organizations such as the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).

Currently, her work focuses on the analysis of subnational and national democracies and semi-authoritarian regimes, unequal access to public goods, and institutional accountability. Her research explores the causes and consequences of unequal territorial access in LATAM and the U.S., and how this affects citizens’ rights in all spheres: civil, political, economic, and social. 

She is the author of multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and two books, including Democrats and Autocrats. Pathways of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Continuity within Democratic Countries (Oxford University Press, 2015).

She has been recognized with several awards, including the Dean’s Summer Research Award (AU, 2022) and the Best Journal Article of Regional and Federal Studies published in 2019 (2020), among many others.

Agustina Giraudy joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democracy and Populism for the School of Social Sciences and Government and for the School of Government and Public Transformation.

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
• M.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
• B.A., Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella 

• Alcañiz, I., & Giraudy, A. (2022). From international organizations to local governments: how foreign environmental aid reaches subnational beneficiaries in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Environmental Politics, 32(4), 663–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2124004

• Giraudy, A., & Niedzwiecki, S. (2021). Multi-level governance and subnational research: Similarities, differences, and knowledge accumulation in the study of territorial politics. Regional & Federal Studies, 32(3), 393–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.1941900

• Diaz-Rioseco, D. and Giraudy, A. (2021), Unconditional Transfers Are Not Oil: The Economic Foundations of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Reproduction. Bull Lat Am Res, 40: 730-749. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13219

• Cyril Bennouna, Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada, Eva Rios, Richard Snyder, Paul Testa, Pandemic Policymaking in Presidential Federations: Explaining Subnational Responses to Covid-19 in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 51, Issue 4, Fall 2021, Pages 570–600, https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjab025

• Benton, A. (2021). Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics. Edited by Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada, and Richard Snyder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Perspectives on Politics, 19(1), 295–297. doi:10.1017/S1537592720004326

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Dr. Floyd “Ski” Chilton is a professor in the School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness and Director of the Center for Precision Nutrition and Wellness at the University of Arizona. He is an innovator in a wide range of areas including an academic professor (+170 scientific publications), an entrepreneur (five companies and one non-profit organization), and an inventor (+10 patents). He is also a bestselling author of six lay books on physical and mental health.

His research focuses on three main areas: 1) precision nutrition with an emphasis on disease prevention; 2) the role of genetic diversity and gene-diet interactions in driving human diseases that lead to racial/ethnic health disparities; and 3) the use of the combination of genomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics to determine: a disease’s status, identify biomarkers and molecular networks of human health and disease, and to discern underlying molecular networks that drive human disease and health disparities. Dr. Chilton has had funding for over 40 years from the National Institutes of Health in the U.S.

He is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society for Nutrition, and the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum. He also sits on the executive boards that help guide non-profit associations like Heroes Helping Heroes, The Persecution Project, and the World Shoe Fund.

He has received numerous prestigious awards including the Alumni Award for Academic and Professional Achievement from Western Carolina University, and the Established Investigator Award from Wake Forest School of Medicine. Recently, the University of Arizona honored him with both the Outstanding Research Impact Award and the Inventor of the Year Award. He is also a member of the National Academy of Inventors.

Floyd "Ski" Chilton joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Functional Genomics for the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Ph.D., Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• B.S., Biology/Chemistry, Western Carolina University (cum laude)

• Sun S, Hara A, Johnstone L, Hallmark B, Lu E, Watkins JC, Thomson CA, Schembre SM, Sergeant S, Umans J, Yao G, Zhang HH, Chilton FH. Differential Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation on Myocardial Infarction Risk Among African and European Americans: A Secondary Analysis Utilizing Optimal Pair Matching and Machine Learning Predictions. Nutrients. 16(17), 2933 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16172933 (2024).
• Mullins, A.V., Snider, J.M., Michael, B. et al. Impact of fish oil supplementation on plasma levels of highly unsaturated fatty acid-containing lipid classes and molecular species in American football athletes. Nutr Metab (Lond) 21, 43 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-024-00815-x
• Lu E, Hara A, Sun S, Hallmark B, Snider J, Seeds M, Watkins J, McCall CE, Zhang H, Yao G, Chilton FH. Temporal associations of plasma levels of the secreted phospholipase A2 family and mortality in severe COVID-19. Eur J Immunol. 2024 Jun;54(6):e2350721. doi: 10.1002/eji.202350721. Epub 2024 Apr 23.PMID: 38651231, 2024.
• Chilton FH, Manichaikul A, Yang C, O’Connor TD, Johnstone LM, Blomquist S, Schembre, SM, Sergeant S, Zec M, Tsai MY, Rich SS, Bridgewater SJ, Mathias RA, Hallmark B. Interpreting clinical trials with omega-3 supplements in the context of ancestry and FADS genetic variation Front Nutr. 8;8:808054.doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.808054. PMID: 35211495, PMCID: PMC8861490, 2022.
• Sergeant S, Keith BA, Seeds MC, Legins JA, Young CB, Vitolins MZ and Chilton FH. Impact of FADS gene variation and dietary fatty acid exposure on biochemical and anthropomorphic phenotypes in a Hispanic/Latino cohort. Front. Nutr. 10:1111624. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1111624, 2023

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