Soledad Loaeza

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María de la Soledad Loaeza Tovar, known as Soledad Loaeza, was born on April 29, 1950, in Mexico City. She is a Mexican academic who studies how democracy grows in Mexico and how Mexican society changes.

Education and early work
- She earned a degree in international relations from El Colegio de México in 1972, writing about Charles de Gaulle’s foreign policy.
- She studied in Munich and Paris and earned a PhD in political science with a focus on how middle classes, democracy, and nationalism interact in Mexico.

Teaching and career
- Loaeza has taught at several universities in Mexico, including Colmex, UIA, ITAM, UAM-I, and UNAM.
- She has also led courses and seminars in the United Kingdom, Spain, the United States, and France.
- She speaks five languages: Spanish, French, English, German, and Italian.

Research and professional affiliations
- Since 1987, she has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
- She has been involved with many international associations in political science and has served in leadership roles on some committees.
- Loaeza is a researcher and professor at Colmex’s Center for International Studies. She has been a visiting researcher at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, the University of Oxford, Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, and the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
- She is a Level III researcher in Mexico’s National System of Investigators.

Writing, translations, and publications
- Loaeza has contributed as an editorialist for La Jornada and has written numerous magazine articles and book chapters.
- She has written prefaces and reviews for many works and has translated books by notable scholars.
- She has published many books on politics, democracy, and Mexican society.