ANA MICAELA ALTERIO is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), School of Law. She is Level 2 for the National System of Researchers (SNI- CONACYT- México).   She holds a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Advanced Studies in Human Rights from Carlos III de Madrid University. Her thesis ‘‘A democratic critique to neo-constitutionalism and its political and institutional implications” granted her the extraordinary doctorate award.

Rodrigo joined ITAM's law department in 2017. He holds a PhD from Macquarie University, a Master of Jurisprudence from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Guadalajara. His research areas are constitutional law, comparative legal studies, and critical legal theories.

Alberto Puppo is full-time Professor and Researcher (since 2012) a ITAM Law School. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (Level II). He holds a doctorate in Analytical Philosophy and General Theory of Law from the University of Milan, and the degree in Law from the University of Genova. Since 2018 he has been the editor-en-chief of the Journal Isonomía - Revista de teoría y filosofía del derecho, and since 2015 he has coordinated, with Raymundo Gama, the Seminar of Legal Philosophy García Máynez.

Athanasios Hristoulas is both a professor and researcher of International Relations at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) since 1996. He is also the coordinator of the diploma course "National Security" at the same institute. He received his Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 1996. Before relocating to Mexico he was the “Military and Strategic Post-Doctoral Fellow” at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.

He obtained his B.A. (Philosophy) and his M.A. (History of Thought) at Universidad Panamericana. He obtained his PhD (Philosophy) at UNAM. He was a CONACYT national scholarship holder from 2012 to 2016 and was honored with a UC MEXUS-CONACYT postdoctoral fellowship to make a research stay at UCSD (2017). He is a member of the Red Iberoamericana Leibniz since 2013.

Carlos Gutiérrez Lozano got his PhD in Philosophy from Universidad Iberoamericana with a thesis dissertation about the metaphysical thinking of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Nowadays, he is studying a PhD program in Philosphy of Religion at University of Innsbruck, where he is working on a thesis dissertation on the religious world view of John Henry Newman and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He specializes in Nietzsche, Heidegger, John Henry Newman and René Girard’s thinking, about which he has lectured in different universities around the country.

He has a degree in philosophy from the Panamerican University and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Navarra. He has made research stays at the University of Leipzig. He lectures General Studies courses at ITAM, and also teaches humanities and philosophy courses at the Panamerican University. He has also taught at the University of Navarra and at the University of Montevideo. His main research topic is the theoretical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, in particular his theory of knowledge. He has published a book and several articles on this theme.

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.

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.