Distinguished Professor, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tec de Monterrey ·
Ph.D. in Economics, UC Berkeley
José Ramón Morales
Researcher
Sebastián Mazzuca
Researcher
Mariana Rangel Padilla
Researcher
Osmar Zavaleta
Researcher
Iván Arana
Researcher
Jorge Cornick
Researcher
Fernando Gómez Zaldívar
Researcher
Nadia Karaguezian
Coordinator
Ana Ibarra
Analyst
Sergio Iglesias Ramírez
Analyst
Hermilo Cortés González
Analyst
Executive Committee
Governance of the Center
The Center's highest strategic decision-making body, made up of representatives of Tec de Monterrey and BBVA México.
Ernesto Stein
Director of CEPCAN, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Paulina Campos Villaseñor
Vice-Rector, Mexico City Region, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Miguel Ángel Santos
Dean, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Carlos Serrano
Chief Economist, BBVA México
Alejandro Cárdenas Bortoni
Head of Corporate and Government Banking, BBVA México
Vice-Rector, Mexico City Region, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Paulina Campos Villaseñor
An economist from ITAM with a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. She has been a professor in the Economics Department of Tecnológico de Monterrey since 2018, where she has held institutional leadership roles including Vice President for Integrity and Compliance and Academic and Development Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Government.
She is currently Vice-Rector of Tec de Monterrey for Mexico City. Part of her professional career was developed at Standard & Poor's, with experience in Mexico City, New York and Madrid, and at Infonavit. She is an Ashoka Fellow and co-founder of a civil association of women leaders.
Dean, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Miguel Ángel Santos
Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Barcelona and Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He spent nearly a decade at Harvard, where he was Director of Applied Research at the Harvard Growth Lab and Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School.
He later was a professor at the London School of Economics and co-director of the Harvard-LSE Growth Co-Lab, the Growth Lab's first international expansion. Since 2023 he has been Dean of the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Chief Economist, BBVA México
Carlos Serrano
Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a degree in Economics from ITAM. He is Chief Economist of BBVA México, where he leads the economic, financial markets and regulatory analysis team.
He was previously Executive Vice President for Regulatory Policy at the CNBV, and an economist at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He has taught Advanced Macroeconomics and Finance at ITAM, and won Mexico's National Economic Research Prize (Banamex, 2000).
Head of Corporate and Government Banking, BBVA México
Alejandro Cárdenas Bortoni
Industrial and Systems Engineer from Tecnológico de Monterrey and MBA from IPADE. He has developed his entire career at BBVA México, where since 2013 he has headed Corporate and Government Banking.
Under his leadership, the division operates through seven regional divisions and more than 270 specialized executives, serving companies and governments across the country.
Researcher
Sebastián Mazzuca
Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Distinguished Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey's School of Social Sciences and Government. He has taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and holds a joint appointment at Johns Hopkins.
His research analyzes the political and economic development of Latin America, focusing on state formation, growth and inequality. He is the author of Latecomer State Formation (Yale University Press, 2021).
Researcher
José Ramón Morales-Arilla
Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University. Research professor at the School of Government and Public Transformation of Tecnológico de Monterrey. He conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton and at the Harvard Growth Lab, where he was also a Research Fellow, and was an assistant professor at the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M.
His work uses advanced quantitative methods to study the political causes and consequences of development, including trade, inequality, migration and growth.
Researcher
Osmar Zavaleta
Ph.D. in Finance from Tulane University, with master's degrees in Industrial Engineering, Applied Statistics and Finance. He is Professor-Researcher in the Department of Finance and Business Economics at EGADE Business School.
He leads the Research Group on Organizational Strategy and Industry Transformation and has held several management positions at Tec de Monterrey throughout his career.
Researcher
Iván Arana
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey, with more than 18 years of experience in logistics, operations and supply chains. He is a professor and researcher at Tec's School of Engineering and Sciences.
He has led consulting projects in operations and logistics in Mexico and abroad, and coordinates Tecnológico de Monterrey's Center for Intelligent and Sustainable Logistics.
Researcher
Mariana Rangel Padilla
Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California, specializing in Comparative Politics and International Political Economy. She holds a Master's in International Affairs from Carleton University and a degree in International Relations with Honorable Mention from Tecnológico de Monterrey. She is a research professor at Tec's School of Social Sciences and Government and a former Fulbright-García Robles fellow. Her research explores business-government relations in the adoption of policies for high-tech and green sectors in Mexico and Latin America, as well as the link between foreign direct investment and human capital formation. Her work has appeared in journals such as Business and Politics, the Journal of Law and Courts and Regulation and Governance.
Analyst
Ana Ibarra
An economist who graduated with honors from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, with nearly four years of experience in applied development research and specialization in quantitative and geospatial analysis. She served as Associate Economist at ANOVA Policy Research, conducting impact evaluations and public policy studies for organizations such as the IDB and CAF, and as research assistant to Dr. José Ramón Morales-Arilla (Princeton University / Texas A&M) on studies of political economy and development in Latin America.
She taught Introduction to Data Science in R at UCAB. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science and by the Inter-American Development Bank.
Analyst
Sergio Iglesias Ramírez
An economist with a degree in Government and Public Transformation from Tec de Monterrey. He is a programming analyst and social data scientist at CEPCAN. He previously served as head of economic intelligence at Mexico City's Ministry of Economic Development.
His interests include public policy, data visualization and the use of statistical learning models to promote social well-being through innovative public policy.
Researcher
Fernando Gómez Zaldívar
Ph.D. in Public Policy from Tecnológico de Monterrey and member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNII). A specialist in economic complexity, his work combines academic research with consulting applied to the design of industrial policy and productive development strategies.
He has advised governments and international organizations such as the IDB and the World Bank on regional development projects in Mexico and Latin America. He is currently a professor-researcher at the School of Government and Public Transformation, where he also directs the Master's program in Public Policy.
Coordinator
Nadia Karaguezian
She holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master's in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She has more than 15 years of experience in institutional management, project coordination and public policy, in the public sector as well as in consulting and academia.
At the Center for Trade Policy and Global Value Chains for North America (CEPCAN) of Tecnológico de Monterrey, she serves as Coordinator, leading the execution of the Center's strategic projects, its engagement with multilateral organizations, the public sector and international partners, and the organization of high-level events and forums.
Analyst
Hermilo Cortés González
A Mexican researcher and academic specializing in economics, data science and high-performance computing. He is currently an associate researcher at the Regional Development Laboratory of Tec de Monterrey's School of Government and Public Transformation and an analyst at CEPCAN.
Director of CEPCAN
Ernesto Stein
Dr. Ernesto Stein was the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Representative in Mexico, where he led all of the IDB Group's activities in the country (public and private sector alike), focusing on reducing regional gaps and fostering economic development.
Over a career of nearly 30 years at the IDB, Ernesto Stein held several roles, including Principal Economist in the Research Department and Regional Economic Advisor for Central America, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic. He has also been a Growth Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Development.
His research focuses primarily on areas critical to development and economic policy, including international trade and integration, foreign direct investment, productive development policies, institutional economics and political economy.
He is the author or editor of more than 12 books and has written more than 40 articles in edited volumes and journals such as the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Policy, Economics and Politics and the American Economic Review (papers and proceedings), among others.
Ernesto Stein joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy for the School of Social Sciences and Government and the School of Government and Public Transformation. Since February of this year he has directed the BBVA-TEC Center for Trade Policy and Global Value Chains for North America.
Researcher
Jorge Cornick
Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A consultant on development and public policy for the IDB, ECLAC, the ILO and SIECA, and a visiting professor of development and macroeconomics at several Costa Rican universities.
He was Director of the Tax Administration Modernization Program, a member of the National Council for the Supervision of the Financial System and of the Board of the Public Services Regulatory Authority in Costa Rica.
His research focuses on productive development policy and the political economy of foreign trade policy.
