Professor José Rafael González Díaz studied Philosophy and Theology at Universidad Pontificia de México, where he learnt Latin and Greek, and taught Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge and Patrology. He got his BA in Philosophy with a thesis dissertation about Emmanuel Mounier´s Personalism. Later he got an MA in Education from Centro Universitario México, and an MA in Human Rights from Universidad Iberoamericana, where he specialized in political participation and philosophy.

Masters in Political Sociology from the Instituto Mora and BA in Philosophy from the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac. He also studied Political Science at ITAM and Theology at the Instituto Superior de Estudios Eclesiásticos de la Ciudad de México. 

He is full-time professor at Departamento Académico de Estudios Generales. He has a Licentiate degree in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana; Master in Philosophy from Universidad Anahuac del Sur and he is currently writing his dissertation in Philosophy to obtain the PhD from Universidad Anáhuac del Sur. He has studies in Economics from ITAM and studies in Theology from the Universidad Pontificia de México.

Dr. Felipe Meza is a researcher at CAIE and a professor of Economics. He joined ITAM in 2007. He has worked on the impact of fiscal variables, the behavior of productivity during financial crises, the effects of financial liberalization, and the dynamics of the informal sector. More recently he has worked on the link between productivity and the cost and availability of bank credit for Mexican manufacturing sectors. As of 2017 his research topics also include the fiscal and monetary history of contemporary Mexico, real exchange rate dynamics, and the impact of the US monetary policy. Prof.

Arturo Aguilar is an assistant professor of economics at ITAM. Arturo’s research interests lie mainly in the development, public policy, applied econometrics, and labor economics fields.

Carlos Urrutia received his PhD in Economics from University of Minnesota in 1998. His areas of interest are within the fields of Macroeconomics and International Economics. He has worked on the topics of income differences across countries, income distribution, intergenerational mobility, social security, business cycles in emerging economies and financial and labor market frictions. He is currently an editor for the Latin-American blog Foco Económico.

Jaime Ruiz de Santiago (1946-). Mexican lawyer, philosopher and theologist. He studied at Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico; at the Catholic Institute in Paris, France; at the Autonomous University of Madrid, in Spain; at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, in France, and at Georgetown University in Washington, in the United States.

He developed studies in Classical Humanities at the Collegium Litterarum Humaniorum of Salamanca Spain obtaining the degree of Associate in Arts. After this, he obtain a B.A. in Philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, Italy. After finishing his degree, he completed a Masters in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas of Rome. He continued his studies pursuing a degree in Theology with specialty in Moral Theology.

Bradly J. Condon (B.A., UBC), (LL.B., McGill), (LL.M., Calgary), (Ph.D., Bond) is the WTO Chair Professor and Founding Director of the Centre for International Economic Law. He has served as visiting professor of international economic law at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the WTO in Geneva, the University of New South Wales in Australia, and the University of Victoria in Canada.

A full time Professor at ITAM’s Law Department, Alejandro Rodiles teaches public international law as well as law and global governance. He earned his law degree (LL.B.) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has completed his doctoral studies (summa cum laude) at Humboldt University, Berlin. In June 2016, his PhD thesis was awarded with the Faculty Price of the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University. In July 2016, he was elected a member of Mexico’s National Research System (SNI, level 1).