Manuel Montoya is an Assistant Professor in the UNM Anderson School of management, His teaching and research focus on global structures, and an interdisciplinary approach to globalization and the factors that produce a global political economy. A Rhodes Scholar and Truman Scholar, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the CEO of his own global consulting firm, In Medias Res Consulting, which has provided support to global NGOs and INGOs including the United Nations and UNESCO. A native from Mora, New Mexico, he has returned to UNM because of his interest in New Mexico as a global emerging economy. He has taught a broad array of coursework from global culture and the history of economic thought to international management. His interdisciplinary training has positioned him to think critically about the circumstances that produce globalization and how nation-states interact with new global challenges.