BIOGRAPHY

She is the Editorial VP of Grupo Expansion since 2009 responsible for 17 magazines and 11 websites with an annual budget of more than 5 mdd. Under her leadership CNNMexico.com, a joint venture with CNN international, was launched and became one of the country most visited general news site. She developed Kinesis, a transmedia’s approach in content creation, which is part of a cost effective company that has gone under her tenure from an audience of 7 million to 32 million and counting.

Fuentes Berain was the first woman editor of a Business section at El Financiero, lead the Investigative team at Reforma, and the Op Ed pages at El Universal, three important daily newspapers. She hosted the Televisa TV program “Contrapunto”, the daily show “Sin Concesiones” at ch. 22; and the Mexico Chapter for the Emerging Markets series at PBS. She´s still frequently invited to primetime TV and is an occasional op ed contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post.

She is a founding member of Mexico’s Fore-ign Affairs Council. As well as a member of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, and a Media Fellow at the yearly World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.

She has contributed to several edited volu-mes, including “Networked Readiness: Latin America’s Last Train” by Soumitra Dutta, Oxford University Press. Her latest individually authored book is Oro Gris (Grey Gold), a biography of CEMEX’s Mexican billionaire CEO Lorenzo Zambrano; The story is essentially an epic set in the world of globalized business which tells the tale of the modernization of the Mexican state.

Fuentes Berain graduated from the Universidad de Occidente-Navarra-Ibero-americana (PH.D) on Media and Law. She holds two Masters Degrees, one on journalism from the University of Southern California (MA), and the other from the Mountview Academy (London), a Diploma on Aesthe-tics and Film History from the Sorbonne in Paris, and a BA of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UAM) on Mass Media at the Public.

On her activities as an active member of her community she participated directly on drafting Mexico´s Freedom of Information Act, helps on a probono basis two organizations “Mexico Unido Contra la Delincuencia” y “Causa en Común”.