Intelligence specialist who has dedicated more than 20 years to the development and promotion of intelligence and information institutions and services. In the public sector, he served as National Security advisor, Undersecretary of Government and Director of the Center for Investigation and National Security (Cisen). In the private sector, he was Vicepresident of Cemex's International Information unit. He has taught Strategic Intelligence courses at the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).

Antonella Bandiera is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at ITAM in Mexico City, and has a Ph.D in Political Science from New York University (NYU). She specializes in political economy of development, and her research focuses on the consequences of weak institutions, including illegal markets, corruption, violence, and crime. In her work, Antonella uses quantitative approaches to causal inference, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs. She is currently working on projects in Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, and El Salvador.  

Alberto Simpser is a professor and researcher in the Department of Political Science at ITAM, with affiliations to the Center for Economic Research (CIE) and the Center for Energy and Natural Resources (CIERN). Prior to joining ITAM in 2014, he was a faculty at the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Alexandra Uribe Coughlan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), a Master´s Degree in International Relations from New York University, and is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science from NYU. Since 1998, she had taught Political Science at ITAM, at both the undergraduate and diploma level. Additionally, she is involved in editing social science texts.