Edmé Domínguez R. is Chairwomen of GADIP (Gender and Development in Practice) and Associate Professor in Peace and Development Studies, and member of the board of WIDE+, where she also coordinates the working group of Gender and Trade.
She was born in Mexico, but resides in Sweden, she has a BA in International Relations from El Colegio de México and a PhD from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP), Paris, France. At present she works as lecturer in Latin American Studies, Gender studies and Global Political Economy at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
During the last 20 years she has been working and publishing on the social and gender implications of NAFTA for Mexico, on gender issues related to citizenship, political participation, labour, transnational activism and free trade agreements particularly in the case of Mexico, El Salvador and Bolivia.