Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon Heading to Harvard Associated Press
go to original November 30, 2012

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon delivers a speech during a ceremony this week in Mexico City.  (Alexandre Meneghini/Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY - Harvard says Mexican President Felipe Calderon will become a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government after he leaves office on Saturday.

The Kennedy School says Calderon will be the first participant in a specially endowed fellowship for government leaders leaving office. It says he will lecture, write, meet with students and professors and develop case studies based on his six-year term in office.

Calderon's term was marked by his escalation of a militarized government offensive against drug cartels, which unleashed waves of violence that left at least 47,500 Mexicans dead before his administration stopped releasing figures last year.

He also oversaw steady economic growth after a 2009 slump linked to the global economic crash, and the Kennedy School praised Calderon for free-market policies that boosted the economy.

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