María de Lourdes Dieck-Assad

When an opportunity came for Dieck-Assad to represent Mexico in Europe, she received the full support of her husband and her three children, who were already in high school and college.

[4] Dieck-Assad's main passion is macroeconomics, working to create cross-sector relationships among the business, government and academic sectors, holding various positions in all these areas.

[1][2][3] Dieck-Assad has given courses, seminars and talks at over 85 conferences to students at various levels, businessmen and more in Mexico, the United States, Latin America and Europe.

[1][3] Recognitions include the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, the country's highest award for her work as the ambassador from Mexico as well as best evaluated professor at ITESM.

She also received tenure at Trinity University and scholarships with the Brookings Institution, the Sally Butler International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women, membership in Phi Kappa Phi, a fellowship from CONACYT, a Fulbright Scholarship and was named the best student in Mexico (Ateneo de México) while an undergraduate, for achieving the highest grade point average at the end of her undergraduate studies in economics at ITESM, class of 1975.