Monica del Carmen Serrano Carreto

Dr Monica Serrano is Professor of International Relations at the Colegio de México and a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies, Oxford University. After gaining her DPhil from Oxford, she was a Research Fellow and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, a Research Associate at the IISS, and a MacArthur Research Fellow at Oxford University´s Centre for International Studies. Between 2008 and 2011, Dr Serrano was Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. She collaborated closely with the UN and other human rights organisations in the development of a new international norm for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes. She has also written extensively on international security, and the international relations of Latin America, with particular reference to international institutions, human rights, security, transnational crime and civil-military relations. Dr Serrano is the author and editor of numerous publications including Transnational Organised Crime and International Security: Business as Usual? (Lynne Rienner, 2002); Regionalism and Governance in the Americas: Continental Drift (Palgrave, 2005); Human Rights Regimes in the Americas (UNU Press 2010); and Mexico's Security Failure. Collapse into Criminal Violence (Routledge 2011). She is co-editor of the Routledge Series Global Responsibility to Protect, a member of the editorial board of Global Responsibility to Protect and of the journal Conflict, Security and Development.