Pablo J. Farías

Mr. Farías joined Ford Foundation in 1998.
Previously, he was the founding director general of the College of the Southern Border in Chiapas, Mexico, a research institute focused on the challenges of poverty alleviation, sustainable development in tropical rural areas and population dynamics in Mexico's southern border region.
He also served on the board of Mexico's National Council on Science and Technology and the national advisory councils on sustainable development and social development.
Mr. Farías began his career working on community health concerns among Latino immigrants in the East Cambridge and Jamaica Plain areas of Boston.
He later worked in social medicine and mental health in the refugee camps along the Mexico-Guatemala border and helped establish the Comitan Center for Health Research, an organization focused on reproductive health, community mental health and local development in rural areas.
Mr. Farías studied medicine at the University of Monterrey and trained in psychiatry and medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Hospital.
He was also a Dupont-Warren research fellow and lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He is a native of Monterrey, Mexico.