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Valerio Ferme
The president of New Mexico State University, which signed a desalination advisory agreement with BorderPlex the same day as the state memorandum of understanding.
At a glance
- Current role
- President, New Mexico State University (NMSU)2025-01-01–present
- Category
- Academic or researcher
- Jurisdiction
- State of New Mexico
- Verification
- confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
- In the record
- 0 sources · 1 connections · 0 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP15
Key facts
- 2025-01-01The 32nd NMSU president, since January 1, 2025.
- 2025-02-25Named in the governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex press release.
- Comes from a comparative-literature background.
- The record's assessment is that the NDA and records mechanism was likely executed at the vice-president-for-research level, not by Ferme personally.
The record
32nd NMSU President since Jan 1 2025; comparative-literature background (Brown/Berkeley) — the NDA/records-interception mechanism was almost certainly executed at the VP-Research level, not by him personally
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