President
Training Program in Student Affairs Administration in Latin American Higher Education Institutions. Dr. Pineda has been the Chair of several Post-Doctoral Programs in Government, Public Policy, and Higher Education. He has been a member of several Editorial Boards such as State and Local Government Review and The Journal of Public Affairs Education, both based in the United States. He is the author or principal editor of several books in public policy, government, and education. His last three books about public policy and education in the USA, Mexico, and China have been translated into Chinese. Juan de Dios Pineda is a distinguished professor at Tianjin Foreign Studies University, visiting professor at the University of Puebla (Mexico); and senior lecturer of Policy Sciences at New Mexico Tech, where also he is the Head of the Research Office’s Latin American Initiatives. He is the President of the Americas Conference of Universities in STEM Education. In 2019, the University of Tlaxcala inaugurated the “Chair Juan de Dios Pineda in Policy Sciences and Public Policy. He has been the chair of the International Trade Committee in the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce, and he is the President & CEO of the International Institute for Higher Education, a non-profit based in the United States.