He has been professor-researcher at the Center for International Studies of The College of Mexico (El Colegio de Mexico, COLMEX) since 2005 (a position he also held between 1991 and1998). He has a professional career of 45 years, which has involved teaching, research and practice in the fields of government, public administration and public policy. In 2025 he received the “Transition and Developing Economies Award”, awarded by the International Public Policy Association for his contributions to the field of public policy in the Global South, and in 2024 he received the “Valentín Gómez Farias” Parliamentary Award for Excellence in Public Administration in the Senate of Mexico. He was Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Government at Harvard University (for which he was awarded the Harvard-Madero Fellowship), Fulbright Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, Fellow at the University of California-San Diego, Visiting Fellow at the Universidad de Salamanca (for which he was awarded a Carolina Foundation Fellowship) and Visiting Professor at FLACSO-Ecuador. He has taught 78 semester courses and given 75 individual lectures at multiple universities in Latin America, the United States, Europe and Africa.