María José Urzúa Valverde is an assistant professor (“profesora asociada”) in the Department of International Studies at ITAM. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, a master's degree in Politics from the same university, and a bachelor's degree in International Relations from ITAM. She was a Fulbright-García Robles scholar from 2018 to 2021, and in 2022, she received Princeton University’s George Kateb Preceptor Award for excellence in teaching.

Pablo Kalmanovitz González is a professor and senior researcher at the Academic Department of International Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He has been General Editor of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law since 2021. He was Director of the International Studies Division at CIDE, as well as Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and at the European University Institute.

Isabel Flores Alcázar is the program director for the Bachelor's Degree in International Relations at ITAM, where she has worked since August of 2014. Before assuming charge of the career, she served as the Academic Coordinator of the same Bachelor's Degree.

David Moreno Guinea holds a B.A. in Political Science from ITAM, a B.A. and an M.A. in Classics from UNAM, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from the University of Dallas. At ITAM he has taught courses on the history of Political and Social Ideas and Institutions, of Problems of Contemporary Civilization, Classical Political Theory, and Political Philosophy and Tyranny. His academic work is centered on the nexus between political philosophy and the concept of tyranny in Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle and Machiavelli, and on Leo Strauss’s critical reading of them.

BA in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana (Mexico) and MA in Philosophy from the University of Dallas. He is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the University of Dallas, where he is writing a dissertation on Aristotle’s review of Platonism in the Metaphysics. His education and interests include the classics, the Western intellectual tradition in the Great Books, and the humanist tradition in Mexico, as well as contemporary philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics. His teaching experience has chiefly been in ancient philosophy and classical languages.

Natalia Saltalamacchia Ziccardi has been a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) since 2004. She was Director of the Undergraduate Program of International Relations at ITAM, as well as of the Center for Inter-American Studies and Programs (Centro de Estudios y Programas Interamericanos, CEPI) at said Institute. She is member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, SNI), as researcher level 1.

Gabriel Goodliffe is a professor and researcher at the Academic Department of International Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He teaches International Political Economy and Thesis Seminar. He holds a B.A. in French Literature from Yale University and an M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University. He also holds an MA and PhD in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Rodrigo Chacón is a full-time professor at the Department of International Studies at ITAM and a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI, level I).  He holds a B.A. in International Relations from ITAM and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the New School for Social Research. Since 2004, he has taught Political Science, Social Theory and International Relations at Eugene Lang College in New York, the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, Boston College, Harvard University and ITAM.

Engineer by heart (Polytechnic of Milan) is a philosopher and theologian by vocation. Graduated in Philosophy and Theology from the Gregorian University (Rome, Italy), has obtained a Master in Dogmatic Theology at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), where he is completing his PhD in Philosophy on the concept of "person" in Robert Spaemann and its consequences in law and economics.

Mexican 1967. Catholic without partisan ideological affiliation. Married since 1994, he has two daughters, born in 2001 and 2005, respectively.