Emilio Coral, PhD, teaches and researches on Global Justice, Diplomatic and Consular Practices, and US and Canada Foreign Policies. Soon he will publish his book La justicia global en un mundo pandémico y en crisis recurrentes, a topic in which migration is crucial. He has taught at Georgetown University, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and currently he is teaching at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

Among a diversity of publications, he coordinated the books El impacto sociocultural del fenómeno migratorio en Michoacán (with Ambassador Claude Heller), and Aprendizajes en familia en México, both published by international organism CREFAL. He has also published contributions in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Historias magazine, and the Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales of the UNAM. He has also offered multiple conferences on academic and educational issues in the United States, Puerto Rico, México, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Honduras and France.
He obtained his PhD in History from Georgetown University, where he graduated with distinction, focusing on the Mexican middle-class and its political, economic and cultural contradictions, and the interaction with the United States, between 1940 and 1970. He also obtained an MA in Latin American Studies from the “Edmund A. Walsh” School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, focusing on history and government.

Among different government and organizational positions, Emilio has been Director of the National Institute for Educational Evaluation in the State of Mexico, Director of Cooperation and Inter-Institutional Relations at CREFAL, and Deputy General Director in the Unit for Educational Policies Planning and Assessment of the Mexican Ministry of Education, among other directive assignments.