Solange Márquez is a professor at the Law School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a Juris Doctor with Honorable Mention from UNAM and a Master of Laws degree from Osgood Law School, York University. Her doctoral thesis was devoted to the study of the crisis and future of parliamentary democracies. Former VP of the Mexican Council on International Affairs (Comexi) and currently its representative in Mexico. Since 2019 she resides in Canada, where she was Director of the Mexico-Canada Alliance, created and hosts the podcast Mexico in Focus and carries out projects to strengthen the bilateral relationship between Mexico and Canada. TEDx Conference, author and co-author on topics related to democracy, populism, autocracies and climate change.
She is a partner of Prospectiva, Consultoría Estratégica, a firm that provides Public Affairs services in Mexico and Freymar Consulting Corp in Canada. Previously founded and was Director of Esfera Política, Centro de Estudios en Democracia, A.C. Think Tank based in Mexico dedicated to the study of democracy and authoritarian regimes. She has been a columnist for El Universal in Mexico for 14 years and has also been a contributor to the newspaper Milenio Diario and a specialist in international issues, political systems and democracy for various national and international media (BBC, Global News, Foro TV, Milenio radio, etc.).
She is a Mentor of Climate Reality Project and a member of the Earth Journalist Network and the Environmental Communication Network of Latin America and the Caribbean; she was appointed Youth Spokesperson of the United Nations for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's). She was a member of the Advisory Group of the World Bank's Global Integrity Alliance (GIA). She has been invited to give courses and conferences in international forums and congresses on multiple occasions in Mexico and in countries such as Korea, Thailand, Spain, Taiwan, Germany, England, India, Albania, Morocco, United States, Colombia, Brazil, among others.