Dr. Mónica Serrano is Professor of International Relations at El Colegio de México.
She is also Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Strategic Studies IISS, and a member of the International Faculty of the Doctorate on Organised Crime at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on the interfaces between security, drug-trafficking/organised crime and human rights. She is especially concerned with the consequent tensions for the regional and global governance architectures.
She was the founding Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (2008–2011), Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute at CUNY, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies, Oxford University and co-editor of Global Governance. She served on the International Advisory Board of the FRAME Project — Fostering Human Rights Among European (External and Internal) Policies — and the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System ACUNS.
Prof. Serrano has taught at Oxford University, the Institute of Latin American Studies, London University, and at the Universitá Degli Studi Di Milano. and has published extensively on international security and Latin America, with particular reference to international institutions, security, human rights, transnational crime and civil-military relations.
Her recent books include: Human Rights Regimes in the Americas (2009); After Oppression: Transitional Justice in Latin America and Eastern Europe (2012); Mexico’s Security Failure: Collapse into Criminal Violence (2012); The International Politics of Human Rights. Rallying to the R2P Cause? (2014); El Tratado de Tlatelolco. Una mirada retrospectiva a medio siglo de su firma (2017) and Verdad, Justicia y Memoria. Derechos Humanos y Justicia Transicional en México (2023). She currently serves on the editorial boards of Conflict, Security and Development, Global Responsibility to Protect, Foro Internacional and Perfiles Latinoamericanos.