Andres Martinez

Andrés Martinez is a Special Advisor to Arizona State University President Michael Crow and a professor of practice at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is also the Co-Director of The Great Game Lab, which explores how the US connects to the rest of the world through sport; and the Editorial Director of Future Tense, a Washington, D.C.-based collaboration between ASU and New America that explores the impact of technology on society. Martinez is also affiliate faculty to The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies.

Martinez has a track record of developing public-facing ideas journalism projects that bridge the worlds of media, academia, and policy, including Future Tense, Los Angeles-based Zócalo Public Square, and ASU's Convergence Lab in Mexico City. He writes and speaks often on sport and globalization, the future of technology, the intersection of media and politics, and the US-Mexico relationship. He is currently working on a book about sport and globalization. Martinez has taught courses on the geopolitics of sport, opinion writing, media ethics, and international/binational reporting. He is a columnist for Mexico City's Reforma newspaper, and frequently writes for such publications as Slate, The Atlantic, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Reuters.   

A native of Mexico, Martinez was appointed by Arizona governors Doug Ducey and Katie Hobbs to serve as a director of the Arizona-Mexico Commission. He has also been a director of the US-Mexico Foundation, and the editorial director and executive editor of ASU-affiliated Zócalo Public Square in Los Angeles.  Prior to joining ASU in 2014, Martinez was Vice President for Communications and National Fellows Program Director at the New America Foundation, an independent Washington think tank. Martinez has also been the editorial page editor of The Los Angeles Times and an assistant editorial page editor at The New York Times, where he was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series of editorials on the impact of U.S. farm subsidies on the developing world. Martinez had earlier been a business reporter at The Wall Street Journal and at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1994-95), as well as an editorial writer at the Post-Gazette (1995-97).

Before taking up journalism, Martinez practiced communications law at Verner Liipfert in Washington, D.C., and served as a law clerk for Federal District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer in Dallas. He is the co-editor of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow (Unnamed Press, 2019) and the author of 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas (Villard Random House, 1999). Martinez earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Yale, a Master of Arts degree in Russian history at Stanford University, and a Juris Doctor degree at Columbia University Law School, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review.