Thomas Legler is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS.
Originally from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Thomas Legler (Ph.D., York University, Toronto, 1999) has been a professor of International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City since 2007 and is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNII), Level III. Between 2014 and 2019, he served as university director of research at the Ibero.
With more than twenty-five years of experience, his research has focused on regional governance and institutions in Latin America. He has published extensively on the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American System, regional responses to political crises in Honduras, Peru, and Venezuela, Latin American multilateralism, post-hegemonic regionalism, the Pacific Alliance, and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. His most recent book is entitled The Politics of COVID-19 in Mexico: Governance Meets Government (Routledge, 2025).
During his associate research fellowship at UNU-CRIS, Thomas Legler will primarily work on two manuscripts for joint publication with UNU-CRIS staff within the Re-LAB Cluster. These include the preparation of an article on informal regional organizations in Latin America, as well as an edited volume for submission to the United Nations University/Springer Series on Regionalism derived from a project on the past, present, and future of multilateral democracy protection in the Americas in the context of the 25th anniversary of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.