Vladimir Rodríguez holds a BSc in Actuarial Sciences from Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, a MSc in Economics from University of Guanajuato. Vladimir holds a PhD in Economics from  the Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series, CREATES, at Aarhus University, Denmark. He was postdoctoral researcher at Carlos III University of Madrid and Assistant Professor of Econometrics with tenure track in the same university. Vladimir has banking professional experience having worked in Risk Management departments in three different Banks in Mexico.

Adrian Rubli received his PhD in Economics from Brown University. He works primarily in the areas of applied microeconomics, specifically in development economics, health economics, and empirical industrial organization. His research focuses mostly on understanding how healthcare providers and health policies interact and shape population and market outcomes in developing contexts, in particular Mexico.

Víctor Alberto Villavicencio Navarro has a BA, MA, and a PhD in History by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He also has a MA in History of the Hispanic World by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de Madrid, Spain.

Between 2015 and 2018, he served as Head of the Deparment of History and Social Sciences at the UNAM’s Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros, where he coordinated and organized several courses, seminars, and diploma courses on Mexican History and Culture.

Mauricio Romero is an assistant professor of economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

Born and raised in Colombia, he earned an B.A in economics (summa cum laude) and a B.A. in mathematics (cum laude) from Universidad de los Andes,  and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego.

José obtained a PhD in economics from The University of Chicago. Currently, his fields are industrial organization and applied micro. His research focuses on understanding digital markets, the effects of internet regulation on consumers and producers of content, and cryptocurrencies.

Edgar F. Roman-Rangel is currently a visiting researcher at the department of digital systems of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he conducts research in the area of intersection of computer vision, representation learning, and cross-modal signal processing, applied to cultural and societal challenges. 

Dr. Arias is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at ITAM.  He graduated from New Mexico State University with a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and a doctoral minor in applied statistics.  His research areas in industrial engineering are: reliability and degradation analysis, manufacturing, quality engineering, and material analysis.

Jose Maria Barrero is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he conducts empirical and quantitative research in macroeconomics and finance, focusing on firm behavior under uncertainty. He also teaches undergraduate corporate finance. Professor Barrero holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA and PhD in Economics from Stanford University.