Diego Salazar Guerra

Bio

Diego Salazar Guerra, from Monterrey, Mexico, is pursuing a master’s degree in business administration at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He graduated summa cum laude from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey with a bachelor’s degree in law and studied at Yale University as a visiting student.

Diego aspires to strengthen Mexico’s rule of law and enhance the provision of public goods by improving government institutions and bridging the gap between policy design and execution.

At Nuevo Leon’s Congress, Diego served as a policy advisor and was appointed by the Legislature as chief of staff for the Congressional Committee on Justice and Public Security. By engaging citizens, authorities, and lawmakers in policymaking, he helped achieve significant reforms in law enforcement, access to justice, and the defense of human rights.

Diego is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and Fulbright–Garcia Robles Scholar and will also pursue a joint master’s degree in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Honors & Awards

• Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Stanford University (2024)
• Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar, Fulbright Program (2024)
• Summa Cum Laude, Tec de Monterrey (2021)