He is professor-researcher at the Center for International Studies of The College of Mexico. Has a professional career of 45 years, which has involved teaching, research and practice in the fields of government, public administration and public policy, for which he has received recognitions such as being named National Researcher Level III by the Mexican Ministry of Science, Humanities and Technology and receiving in the Mexican Senate the “Valentin Gomez Farias Parliamentary Award for Excellence in Public Administration”. He has also received prestigious scholarships, including the Fulbright Scholarship, the Antonio Madero Harvard Fellowship and the University of Texas C.B. Smith Fellowship. He has taught at international renowned universities such as the University of Pittsburgh, Harvard University, the College of Mexico, the National University of Mexico, among other ones. He has been visiting fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies of the University of Harvard, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies of the University of California-San Diego and the Ibero American Institute of the University of Salamanca. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. He has over 100 academic publications, in Spanish, English or Portuguese. Among them, 12 books, dozens of articles in journals such as Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Governance, The International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations and Foro Internacional, as well as dozens of chapters in books published by prestigious publishing houses, such as Oxford University Press, The Johns Hopkins University Press, The University of Texas Press, Palgrave, Edward Elgar or Routldege. Since the early nineties, he has been one of the most notable promoters of public policy analysis and public leadership studies in Mexico. His article “La política publica como variable dependiente”, published in 1993, was on of the first public policy articles published in Mexico and has become one of the most widely cited articles on the subject in Mexico and Latin America. According to a recent survey of Latin American scholars, his book Políticas Publicas. Enfoque Estrategico para America Latina is considered one of the five “essential books” produced in this region for the study of public policy. He has served in various positions at many professional associations, such as the the Latin American Political Science Association and the International Political Science Association. He was one of the Vicepresidents of the International Public Policy Association, an Associated Editor of its flagship journal, the International Review of Public Policy, and the Founding Coordinator of the Association´s Latin American Network. Currently, he serves as the Vice President of the Mexican Political Science Association and the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Mexico´s National Award on Public Policy. In the early 2000s, he was one of the main designers and promoters of the law establishing, for the first time in Mexican history, a professional career civil service at the federal government. After this law´s approval, he became the first head of the newly created office of the Mexican federal civil service, where he oversaw the drafting of this law's statute as well as the start of its implementation. Throughout his career, he has been an advisor to the Mexican president, several Mexican Secretaries of State, as well as the coordinator of various educational programs and a consultant for entities such as the World Bank, the United Nations, the United States Development Agency, the Mexican Electoral Institute, among other agencies.
