Hector Cardenas holds Ph.D. and M.P.P. degrees from the Goldman School of Public Policy as well as an M.P.A. degree from France's École Nationale d'Administration, and a BA in International Relations from El Colegio de México.
He specializes in regulatory policy, service delivery, information technology strategy, operations management and Big Data analytics. He is the President and CEO of The Ergo Group, a public policy and information technology strategy consulting firm. Over the past 20 years he has led the firm's consulting projects for government agencies in the U.S., México, Canada and Singapore, as well as for the World Bank Group, the Interamerican Development Bank, USAID, UNDP, and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. These projects have been focused on regulatory reform, criminal justice reform, consular operations, strategic planning and process improvement. His passion is helping governments to best use data-driven decision-making, statistical and operations research techniques, and information technology to improve operations and outcomes of public policies and government programs.
At GSPP Dr. Cárdenas has taught the Advanced Policy Analysis course since 2014, the Capstone Analytic Project for the MPA degree since its inception since 2017, a course on data visualization for public policy, Make It So! The Challenges of Policy Implementation that Delivers Results and U.S-Mexico Policy Relations. He is particularly active in regulatory reform, government services delivery, data analytics and visualization, and U.S. – Mexico binational policy issues. He has been a member of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Working Group on Migration, is a member of Mexico’s Council on Foreign Relations (Comexi) and served on the Business Advisory Board in California of Nacional Financiera, México’s development bank. He has worked with the Canadian federal government as well as the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan on their regulatory reform initiatives since 2009. He has been working with the Government of Singapore on the redesign of one of their border checkpoints with Malaysia since 2017. He has been a consultant for the World Bank Group in Bolivia and Iraq and is currently leading a project for the Interamerican Development Bank in Mexico. He has also worked on projects funded by UNDP and by the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has advised several Mexican Federal Government agencies, including the Mexican Foreign Ministry on its consular policy and operations since 2009, the Ministry of the Economy since 2001, and has been active in the field of justice system reform in Mexico since 2008, having worked on the implementation of the reforms for the Federal Council of the Judiciary, the Supreme Court, the Federal Electoral Tribunal, the Ministry of the Interior, USAID and several state governments.
He is also an Affiliated Profesor at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City and a member of Mexico's Foreign Relations Council (Comexi).
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Areas of Expertise
- Public Management
- Program Evaluation
- International
- Foreign Policy
- Regulation
- Public Sector Operations
- Data Driven Decision Making
- Information Technology Strategy
- US-Mexico Binational Policy
- Regulatory Reform
- Criminal Justice Reform
Last updated on 02/23/2024