Denise Dresser is a Mexican political analyst, columnist, academic, and activist. Her work has centered on Mexican democratization, corruption, and political economy issues from a comparative perspective. She is a professor of political science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, where she has taught comparative politics, political economy, and Mexican politics since 1991. Dr. Dresser earned her PhD in politics at Princeton University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, after completing her undergraduate work at El Colegio de México. Dr. Dresser is the author of numerous books and publications on Mexican politics and U.S.-Mexico relations. She has published articles in the Journal of Democracy, Current History, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, the Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Nexos, Revista de la Universidad de México, Foreign Policy, Americas Quarterly, and Foreign Affairs. She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and participates in Mexican radio and television programs. She has been a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Times, and has also published opinion pieces in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She is a frequent commentator on Mexican politics and U.S.-Mexico relations in the U.S. and Canadian media.