COTA's President of North America, Dr. David Conde, has been serving COTA as a senior consultant for the last five years and has been a commercial activity partner since the inception of COTA.
Conde earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Colorado and Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He spent 39 years in higher education as a Professor, Associate Dean, Assistant Vice President, Associate Vice President and SeniorAssociate Vice Chancellor in Colorado, New Mexico and North Carolina. Dr. Conde also comes to us with 32 years of experience in developing and conducting international programs inEurope, Mexico, Central and South America in the public and private sectors.
In addition to helping facilitate COTA conferences and trade missions, he currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of East Migrant Head Start Project, a 45.7-million-dollar agency with 40 education centers for migrant children in 14 states along the east coast and the south and serves as a board member and one of the task group leaders for Colorado Global College, a start-up institution serving an international bilingual community.
Dr. David Conde is also a journalist who has that has published over 600 articles and was recognized by the Hispanic Media 100 Award that placed him among the top 100 Latino journalists in the United States in 2002; he also received a Hispanic Media 50 Award in 2003. He has been honored for his work numerous times in the United States and Mexico, where he received the Diploma Honoraria from the Law School of the Autonomous University of Mexico in 1984.