Editorial Board

Francisco Venegas Martínez, Ph.D.

Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México

remef@imef.org.mx

§  Postdoctoral research in Finance at Oxford University, Ph.D. in Mathematics at Washington State University, a second Ph.D. in Economics at Washington State University, Master’s degree in Economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Master’s degree in Mathematics, Master’s degree in Operations Research, and Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

§  Research professor and full-time tenured professor “C” at the Escuela Superior de Economía of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

§  Lázaro Cárdenas award winner in 2012. This is the highest distinction granted by the IPN to a research professor and is presented by the President of the Republic.

§  Researcher with the highest productivity record in the entire IPN in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

§  2011 IPN Applied Research Award Winner.

§  First place winner in 2002 of the National Economic Research Award Maestro Jesús Silva Herzog granted by the Economics Research Institute of the UNAM

§  First place winner of the 2004 MexDer National Derivatives Award in the research category.

§  Second place winner of the 2005 MexDer National Derivatives Award in research

§  Level III SNI member (30 years in the SNI).

§  Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC for its acronym in Spanish), 15 years in the AMC.

§  Member of different Commissions of the Advisory Board of Sciences of the Presidency of the Mexican Republic.

§  Has published more than 300 articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals (JCR, SCOPUS, Padrón CONACYT, SCIELO, etc.)

§  He has approximately 1600 citations with an H19 index.

§  He is the Mexican author with the highest number of articles in EconLit (2000-2010) and highest number of published articles in Conacyt+Kiel (2000-2010).

§  His articles have been cited by Stanley Fischer, Arnold Zellner, Arnold C. Harberger, Frank Fabozzi, Guillermo Calvo, Carlos Végh, Klaus Wälde, and in the Handbook of Macroeconomics (North Holland, Amsterdam), among many others.

§  He participates in more than 40 editorial and scientific committees of national and international research journals.

§  He has acted as thesis director on more than 150 theses: bachelor’s degree (10), master’s degree (100), and Ph.D. (50) of which 40 are members of the SNI.

§  He has been financial advisor to the Treasurer of Mexico City and the Sub-secretariat of Development and Energy Programs of the Secretariat of Energy. In the private sector, he acted as Director of Research and New Products of the Mexican Derivatives Exchange.

§  He has authored more than 20 research books, among which “Financial and Economic Risks” stands out, published by CENGAGE with more than 20,000 copies sold in Latin America.

§  Member of the Methodology Evaluation Committee of the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV for its acronym in Spanish); member of the Board of Directors of MexDer 2004-2006; member of the Valuation Committee of Valmer (Valuación Operativa y Referencias de Mercado S. A. de C. V.); member of the Jury for the MexDer National Derivatives Award; member of the Jury for the National Prize in Master Economic Research.); member of the Jury of the National MexDer Derivatives Award; member of the Jury for the National Economic Research Award Jesus Silva Herzog granted by IIEC-UNAM; member of the Research Award Committee of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional; member of the American Mathematical Society, the Econometric Society, and the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association.

Dr. Gerardo Dubcovsky Rabinovich

Universidad del Valle de México

remef@imef.org.mx

§  PhD in Administration with specialty in Finance; graduated with Honors from Tecnológico de Monterrey and the University of Texas in Austin

§  Vice-rector for Postgraduate Studies. Executive Degree and Research from the UVM and the UNITEC

§  Jury of the national award for Financial Market Research

§  Counselor for the IMEF Research Foundation

§  Chief Editor of The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance REMEF 2011-2018

§  Partner and Director of Business & Growth

Dr. Robert C. Merton

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

§  Distinguished Finance Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Professor Emeritus of Harvard University.

§  Merton received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997 due to his new method to determine the value of derivatives. He was president of the American Finance Association, member of the National Academy of Sciences and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

§  He is currently working as Resident Researcher in Dimensional Holdings, Inc. where he is creator of Managed DC, an integrated global system for pension funds which takes care of the deficiencies associated to the traditional pension plans of defined contribution and defined benefit.

§  Merton received the Financial Engineer of the Year Award granted by the International Association for Quantitative Finance (formerly, the International Association of Financial Engineers). He received the 2011 Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award granted by the CME group, and the WFE 2013 Award for Excellence of the World Federation of Exchanges. He is a distinguished member of the Quantitative Finance Research Institute ("Group Q") and member of the Financial Management Association, Merton received the Nicholas Molodovsky Award of the CFA institute. He is a member of the Hall of Fame of the Fixed Income Analysts Society, as well as of the Derivative Risk Strategy journals. He received the Risk’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of risk management.

§  Merton received a PhD in economics from MIT, and honorary degrees from thirteen universities. His current research focuses on three areas: 1) investments in the productive life cycle and pension fund solutions, 2) macro-financial (systemic) measurement and monitoring of risk, and 3) financial innovation and financial institutional change dynamics.

§  Winner of the II FIMEF Finance Diamont Award by IMEF Research Foundation at the VII FIMEF Financial Research Conference 2017.

Dr. Myron Scholes

Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA

§  Nobel Laureate in Economics 1997, Director of Oak Hill Platinum Partners

§  PhD from the University of Chicago

§  He has carried out studies concerning fiscal incentives and the prices of assets

§  He studied the effects of taxation of dividends in securities prices, the interaction of incentives and taxes for the compensation of executives, matters of capital structure regarding fiscal matters, and the effects of taxes on the optimal liquidation of resources

§  He is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

§  Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

§  Co-creator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model.

§  He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 for his new method of determining the value of derivatives

§  He was president of the Platinum Grove Asset Management and was on the Dimensional Fund Advisors Board of Directors

§  He was director and limited partner at Long-Term Capital Management, LP and General Director in Salomon Brothers

§  Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Dr. James Heckman

University of Chicago, USA

§  Nobel Laureate in Economics 2000, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

§  Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago

§  His recent researches have been on the evaluation of social programs, discrete choice econometric models and longitudinal data, labor market economy, and alternative models for income distribution. He has received several awards, among which are:

§  1983 - John Bates Clark Award from the American Economic Association

§  2000 – Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

§  2005 - Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime contributions to the field of Labor Economics

§  2005 – Ulysses Medal from the Dublin University College and the Aigner Prize in the Journal of Econometrics

Dr. Oldrich Vasicek

Vasicek Associates, USA

§  Professor Emeritus

§  Doctorate in Probability Theory from Charles University

§  Master’s degree in Mathematics from Czech Technical University

§  Forty years ago, the work he published in the Journal of Financial Eocnomics, An equilibrium characterization of the term structure, on the dynamics of the interest rate curve, was a seminal contribution to financial theory.

§  Pioneer in interest rate models.

§  In 1989, Mr. Vasicek founded the KMV company, a firm acquired by Moody’s fourteen years later and then renamed Moody’s Analytics.

§  Among other positions in the industry, he acted as Vice President of the Department of Administrative Sciences at Wells Fargo.

§  Mr. Vasicek received several awards:"Lifetime Achievement Award" de la Risk Magazine

o    "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Risk Magazine

o   His name is in the Hall of Fame of:

§  Fixed Income Analysts Society

§  Derivatives Strategy

§  Risk Magazine

o    Winner of the I° Finance Diamond Prize (2016) granted by the IMEF Research Foundation

§  Bloomberg included his paper entitled Probability of Loss on Loan Portfolio, as one of the 19 most influential papers in quantitative finance.

Dra. Carmen M. Reinhart

Grupo Banco Mundial

Harvard Kennedy School, USA

§  Ph.D., Columbia University, New York

§  Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System, at Harvard Kennedy School

§  Chief economist and Vice President of the Bear Stearns investment in the 1980s.

§  Deputy Director, IMF Research Department (2001-2003)

§  Economic advisor to the Congressional Budget Office (2010-2016), to the World Bank Chief economist, and to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2014-present day); is a member of the Trilateral Commission, NBER

§  Bloomberg Markets: Most Influential 50 in Finance

§  Foreign Policy: Top 100 Global Thinkers

§  Thompson Reuters: The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds

§  Her book, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (similarities in the recurrent booms and busts that have characterized financial history) has been translated into more than 20 languages and has won the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson award in 2010

§  Ranked as “first among women economists” of the world 2007 to date.

Vicepresident and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, since June 15, 2020

Dr. John C. Hull

University of Toronto, Canada

§  Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

§  Professor Maple Financial Group Chair in Derivatives and Risk Management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto

§  He is an internationally known authority in derivatives and risk management and has several publications in these areas

§  More recently, his research has focused on credit risk, options of executive actions, areas of volatility, market risk and derivatives of types of interest

§  He was, along with Alan White, one of the winners of the Nikko-Lor research competition for his work on the Hull-White model of interest rates

§  He has worked as advisor of several financial institutions of North America, Japan and Europe

§  He has written three books: Risk Management and Financial institutions; Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (7th edition); and Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets (6th edition)

§  He has received several awards, among them the prestigious Northrop Frye Award from the University of Toronto

§  He was appointed Financial Engineer of the Year in 1999 by the International Association of Financial Engineers

§  He has been a professor at: University of York, University of British Columbia, New York University, Cranfield University, and London Business School

Dr. Thomas Copeland

University of San Diego, USA

§  Global leader in economic, financial and management consultancy

§  Senior Advisor at the Monitor Finance company

§  He was general corporate finance director of the Monitor company

§  He is recognized as a leading authority in valuation.

§  He has served as a consultant in more than 200 corporations in 35 countries around the globe. (mergers and acquisitions, restructuring of companies, measurement of performance and management based on values, standards of stock exchange, valuation of financial institutions, development of risk management systems, and determinations and capital structure for big corporations)

§  For 11 years he was Corporate Director of Financial Services for McKinsey & Company.

§  Titular professor of finance at UCLA

§  He acted as President for the Department of Finance and Vice-president for the Graduate School of Management.

§  He is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Business

§  Visiting professor of Finance at the University of Harvard and the New York University Stern School of Management

§  Co-author of Financial Theory and Corporate Policy (2005), Based-Management” (Wiley 2005), Real Options: A guide for professionals (Thompson 2003), and Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (Wiley, 3rd edition).

§  He is currently a distinguished Professor of the Department of Finance at the University of San Diego

Dr. Edward I. Altman

New York University, USA

§  He is Max L. Heine Professor at the University of New York Stern School of Business

§  He directs the research on fixed income and credit at the Salomon Center of the school, where he is president. Before assuming his role in 1990:

§  He presided over the MBA program of the Stern School of Business for twelve years

§  He currently acts as executive director of the journal of Banking and Finance, Advisor to the Editor of John Wiley Frontier in Finance, Advisor of the Centrale dei Bilanci in Italy, as well as of several banks in core countries

§  He was recently elected President of the Financial Management Association

§  He is the author of almost two dozen books and more than one hundred academic articles in the fields of finance, accounting and economics.

§  His most famous contribution was: the elaboration of quantitative bankruptcy risk models, accentuated by the introduction of the Z-score in 1968, the ZETA analysis in 1977, and the score emerging markets in 1995. These models have provided the basis for several credit risk studies around the world. In 1997, when JP Morgan presented its acclaimed CreditMetrics® model. A year later, the World Bank aggregated the Z-scores for the companies in each of the many developing Asian countries and others.

 Dr. Stephen Figlewski

New York University, USA

§  Stephen has been, since 1976, a professor of Finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University.

§  He has a bachelor degree in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

§  He has published several articles in academic journals, especially in the area of financial futures and options.

§  He is the founding editor of the Journal of Derivatives; he also edits the Dos “Derivados” series of the Financial Economics Network, which is published online.

§  He is the director of the Research Project on Derivatives NASDAQOMX, which is a research initiative of the Stern School that supports the applied and theoretical research of Derivatives and promotes intellectual exchange among academics and professionals in derivatives, risk management and financial engineering.

§  Professor Figlewski has also worked in Wall Street. Recently, he took leave to work in the establishment of margins of credit sensitive securities for Citigroup.

§  He has also worked in First Boston Corporation, being in charge of the research on derivative instruments, and was once member of the New York Futures Exchange and trader of competitive options in the New York Exchange.

 Dr. Aloísio Araújo

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada & Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brasil

§  Bachelor Degree in Economics from the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (1968)

§  Master of mathematics from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (1969)

§  PhD in Statistics from the University of California (1974)

§  He is a professor of the Fundação Getulio Vargas - RJ and Senior Researcher III of the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada

§  He has experience in mathematics, with emphasis on Applied Mathematics and Economic Sciences. Professor at the IMPA and EPGE for more than 20 years.

§  He taught at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago and University of California, and La Sobornne in France.

§  He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and of the Giggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society and the Third World Academy of Sciences

§  In 1999, he received the National Order of Scientific Merit, granted by the president

§  He has been a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Science since 2003

§  In 2006, he was selected member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States

 Dr. Antonhy Thirlwall

University of Kent, U.K.

§  He is a professor of Applied Economics

§  He received his higher education at the universities of Leeds, Cambridge, and Clark University (EE.UU.)

§  He spent almost the entirety of his academic career at the University of Kent

§  He has worked as an economic advisor for the government, and visiting professor at the Universities of West Virginia, Princeton, Papua New Guinea, Cambridge, Melbourne and La Trobe

§  He is currently working as Consultant of the Development Program of the Pacific Islands in Hawaii, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and UNCTAD

§  He is a member of the Editorial Council of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and the African Development Test

Rita Laura D'Ecclesia, Ph.D

Spienza University of Rome, Italy

§  Rita Laura D’Ecclesia is Professor of Quantitative Methods at Sapienza University of Rome, Chair of the Euro Working Group for Commodities and Financial Modelling and Director of the PhD programme in Economics and Finance at Sapienza and Chair of the International Summer School on Risk Measurement and Control organized yearly in Rome.

§  She teaches currently Financial Math, Asset Pricing, Risk Management at undergraduate, graduate and PhD level. She was visiting Professor at Birkbeck University of London from 2008 to 2015 were she taught for the MSc in Financial Engineering and Commodities. She has been teaching advanced training courses for several international companies in UK, Sweden, Netherlands and France.

§  She has a broad expertise and deep understanding of financial markets, price modelling, optimization techniques and energy markets dynamics. She served as member of the hiring committee to select quantitative method experts for the Bank of Italy, Consob and Department of Education.

§  She has been serving as independent expert in the Board of major Italian Banks since 2016.

§  At the moment she is in the Board of Banco Monte dei Paschi di Siena, The oldest Bank in the world. Her research topics spread from portfolio optimization to pricing financial securities and commodities.

Dr. James R. Barth

Auburn University, USA

§  James R. Barth is a Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance at the University of Auburn and a Senior Finance Fellow at the Milken Institute. His research work focuses on financial institutions and capital markets, both national and global, with a special emphasis on regulatory topics.

§  He has published more than 200 research articles and is currently Editor or Co-editor of several journals: Economics Research International, Journal of Financial Economic Policy, The Chinese Banker, The Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth, and Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies.

§  He was recently appointed leader of an international consultancy team for the People’s Bank of China concerning banking reforms, and is a member of the U.S. Speaker and Specialist Program of the Department of State of the United States in China, India, Russia, and Egypt.

§  Among other positions he has held, he was appointed Chief Economist of the Office of Thrift Supervision by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush

 Dr. Fausto Hernández Trillo 

Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

§  He has a PhD in economics from the Ohio State University. He has two bachelor degrees, one in administration from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and another in economics from the UNAM.

§  He is the author of ten books in finance and of several academic articles published both in international and national journals.

§  He has been awarded the “Daniel Cosío Villegas” Award granted by the Fondo de Cultura Económica.

§  He has taught at the CIDE, Colegio de México, Universidad de la Américas in Puebla, Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Panamericana, Ohio State University, Austin Texas University, Purdue University, University of Chicago, Universidad de Zaragoza, and in different countries of Central and South America. Similarly, he has been a consultant for the World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, CEPAL and the Mexican and Guatemalan governments, as well as for different Mexican companies such as Cemex and IXE Banco. He was a researcher at the Mexican Stock Exchange and Budget Deputy Director-General at the SHCP.

§  He is a national level III researcher of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

§  He has been recently listed in the prestigious publication WHO’S WHO IN SCIENCE.

§  He was director of the Economics Division of the CIDE and is director of the prestigious journal El Trimestre Económico, edited by the Fondo de Cultura Económica.

§  He is currently attached to the Department of Economics of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.

 Dr. José Carlos Ramírez

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, México

§  He has been a research fellow at the CIDE, Colegio de México, Colegio de Sonora, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Mexico City, and Faculty of Economics of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

§  He has been an advisor of the Risk Management department of the Banco Nacional de México

§  He has published articles in: El trimestre económico, Economía Mexicana, Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos, Comercio Exterior, among others.

§  He has been in international forums such as XVII Latinamerican Meeting of the Econometric Society, the European Econometric Society and the II Taller de Matemáticas y Finanzas organized by the Sociedad Matemática Mexicana

§  He was a full-time research fellow at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Mexico City, where he teaches Economic Growth and Microeconomics Theory for the Bachelor Program and Applied Microeconomics for the Master program.

§  He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Level 3)

§  He is currently a research fellow at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF).

 Dr. Edgar Ortiz

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

§  Full Professor, tenuered, Graduate School of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM

§  Tutor, Graduate Program in Political and Social Sciences, UNAM

§  Tutor, Graduate Program in Engineering, UNAM

§  Tutor Graduate Program in Economics, UNAM

§  Tutor Graduate Program in Latin American Studies, UNAM

§  He obtained his Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Business Administration (Finance and International Business, and Economics) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States; From the same university are his degrees of Master in Science in International Business and Master in Business Administration, MBA (Finance); He carried out postdoctoral studies in Latin American Studies at UNAM. His Bachelor's degree in Humanities was obtained from Southwest Missouri State College.

§  His professional experience in teaching and research includes, in addition to UNAM, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Rutgers University of New Jersey, the University of San Diego, the University of Wisconsin, the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), and Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus.

§  He has directed 51 doctoral thesis, 52 masters theses.

§  He has published more than 200 articles and chapters in national and international journals and books on financial economics. He is member of several academic associations, including the Multinational Finance Society, Global Finance Society, International Trade and Finance Association, Business Association for Latin American Studies, and the Academy of Administrative Sciences (ACACIA) of Mexico in which he has served in several executive positions, including those of President. He Has participated in various national and international collegiate bodies including the Evaluation Commission of the National System of Researchers. Area V, Social Sciences.

§  Currently, he is member of the National System of Researchers, Level III, member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and Numerary Member Number of the Academy of Administrative Sciences (ACACIA).

Dr. Francisco López Herrera

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

§  Mr. López Herrera is a college professor, Tenured C of the Research Division in the Accounting and Administration Faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

§  He is a National Level III researcher in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.

§  He has a PhD in Economics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he obtained the Master degree in Finance with Honors.

§  He has published more than 50 articles, books and book chapters, both nationally and internationally, obtaining in 2010 the distinction of Best Empirical Research Paper of the X International Finance Conference, conferred by the American Academy of Financial Management.

§  He has directed more than 30 master and bachelor degree theses.

§  He coordinated research projects from the Secretaría de Energía and the Comisión Federal de Electricidad, and is an advisor of the economic and administrative area of McGraw Hill.

 Dr. Carlos Guerrero de Lizardi

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

§  Full-time tenured professor “C” at the Faculty of Economy of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

§  He did his doctoral studies in applied economy at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he was awarded the distinction “Cum Laude”.

§  In 2004 he completed an executive program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and in 2009 he completed a research fellowship.

§  Level III (SNI) national researcher.

§  Served as head of the Graduate Studies Division from February 2016 to May 2018.

§  He was director/editor of the Investigación Económica journal from issue 292 to 303, a period during which the magazine re-entered the Classification System of CONACyT, was consolidated in the two most important international indices: in the JCR, it increased its impact factor fivefold, and rated not only as the best positioned Mexican economic magazine in the “Web of Science” but surpassed, among others, the CEPAL Review; and in the SJR, it was consolidated as Q3.

§  He was director of the Doctorate in Public Policy concentration in Public Economics and academic coordinator of the Master in Economics and Public Policy, both PNPC programs of the Tecnológico de Monterrey between 2009 and 2011, and 2006 and July 2014, respectively.

§  Between 2015 and 2018 he was a member of the Council of Academic and Peer-reviewed Publications of the UNAM, as well as of the "Committee of Non-Periodic Publications" of the Institute of Economic Research.

§  He is currently associate editor of the Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance, and member of the editorial committee of the Economía Mexicana and Contaduría y Administración journals.

§  His preferred areas of interest are multivariate analysis of time series and microdata and the statistical methodologies for the measurement of economic variables.

 Dr. René Cabral Torres

Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

§  René Cabral is an associate professor of the EGADE Business School and leader of the research group in Finance and Macroeconomy. He has a PhD and a Master in economics from the University of York in England. He has a Master in finance from the EGADE and a Bachelor degree in Economics from the Technológico de Monterrey.

§  He has published articles in journals such as: the European Journal of Political Economy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Annals of Regional Science, Kyklos, Journal of Policy Modelling, North American Journal of Economic and Finance, Estudios Económicos, among others.

§  He has directed more than a dozen master and doctoral theses. He is a level II researcher of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores of the CONACyT.

 Dr. Ignacio Perrotini Hernández

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

§  Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy and of Macroeconomy, Postgraduate Studies Division of the Faculty of Economics of the UNAM.

§  He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), level 3.

§  He is the Director and Editor of the Investigación Económica journal.

§  He has published several articles and reviews in indexed journals in Mexico, the United States, England, Italy and Brazil, such as Investigación Económica, El Trimestre Económico, Revista Mexicana de Economía y Finanzas, Economía Teoría y Práctica, Monetaria, revista de Contaduría y Administración, Cambridge Journal of Economics, The International Journal of Political Economy, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Análise Econômico; he has edited and co-edited nine books, among which are: Market Liberalism, Growth, and Economic Development in Latin America.

§  He acts as a book translator for the Fondo de Cultura Económica, and recently translated “The Great Escape: health, wealth and the origins of inequality” by Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2015.

§  He has also acted as speaker or visiting professor at the University of Graz; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil; Göteborgs Universitet and University of Skövde, Sweden; the Università degli Studi di Siena, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Università degli Studi "G. d’Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Italy; Academy of Social Scienes in Beijing, China, and University of Hangzhou, China; Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Centre for Development Studies, Trivantrum, India.

 Dra. Antonina Ivanova Boncheva

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, México

§  Research professor and director from Centro de Estudios APEC, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur.

§  Author-leader from the Fourth IPCC Evaluation Report (Nobel Peace Prize 2007).

§  Member of  Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Level II.

§  Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC for its acronym in Spanish)

§  Since 2002 member of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

§  She represented Mexico at the IPCC Bureau as Vice-Chairperson of Working Group 3 "Mitigation" (2008-2015).

§   Economics Ph.D (UNAM) with Posdoctorate in Peace Studies (Universidad de Bradford, RU). Bachelor in International Economics Relations and Master in Economic journalism (Universidad de Economía Internacional, Bulgaria & Instituto en Integración Europea, Bélgica). Conducts research in international cooperation on climate action with a focus on Asia-Pacific.

§  Author or editor from 23 books and more than 200 articles in refereed journals.

§  Editor of the Special Report on Renewable Energies (2011) and the IPCC's fifth evaluative report (2014).

§  Research lines: International cooperation, climate change and sustainable development.