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Elizabeth Salamanca

Nonresident Scholar

Biography

Elizabeth Salamanca, Ph.D., is a nonresident scholar for the Center for the United States and Mexico, a summer 2016 and summer 2015 Puentes Visiting Scholar, and a professor at the School of Business and Economics at the University of the Americas Puebla (UDLAP). Her research interests focus on migration issues and Latin American emerging markets.

Salamanca chaired UDLAP’s Department of International Business Administration from August 2010 through June 2014. She edited and co-authored the book “International Management Perspectives,” and authored the book “Human Resources Strategies in the Restaurant Industry: Overcoming Institutional Voids in Latin American Emerging Markets.” In addition, her work on entrepreneurial migration from Mexico to the U.S. has been published in academic peer-reviewed journals. She is a member of the Researchers National System (SNI) in Mexico.

Salamanca has a doctorate in social and economic sciences from the Johannes Kepler University-Linz in Austria; an MBA jointly conferred by the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain), the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes (France), and the University of Bradford (England); and a bachelor’s degree in hotel and restaurant management from UDLAP.

Contact at [email protected].

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Fostering Binational Startups: US-Mexico Collaboration
With high entrepreneurship and startup rates, Latino immigrants are key contributors to U.S. economic development. In a new report for the Center for the U.S and Mexico, nonresident fellow Elizabeth Salamanca explains how their skills and expertise are integral to innovative startups that often evolve into binational businesses, operating in both the U.S. and Mexico.
Elizabeth Salamanca September 9, 2024
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Linking Mexican Immigrants’ Contributions to the U.S. Knowledge Economy
High-skilled immigrants from emerging markets are playing an increasingly important role in the global knowledge economy, writes nonresident scholar Elizabeth Salamanca Pacheco. In this paper, Salamanca Pacheco explains how high-skilled migrants from Mexico are well positioned to alleviate a STEM talent shortage in the U.S. and stimulate innovation in their native country.
Elizabeth Salamanca February 25, 2022