Alejandro Hernández D. earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from ITAM, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics (1989) from the University of Rochester (USA). Since 1993, he has been a member of ITAM’s Department of Economics. From 1997 to 2010 he served as ITAM’s Dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Law, and since 2010 he is the Provost. He is a member of several professional and academic associations, including the Econometric Society, where he was Chair of the Latin American Chapter from 1999 to 2003.

Dr. Arturo Fernández earned his B.A. in Economics from ITAM and his M.A. and Ph.D in Economics from University of Chicago. He won the second place of the Banamex National Prize of Economics in 1987. On January 1, 1992 became President of Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

His research currently focuses on the use of big data to calibrate structural economic models and explain the processes of price formation as well as other financial and economic processes. He is a former Economic Researcher from the Mexican Central Bank, where he specialized in trade infrastructure, prices, regional economies and urban economics. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in both Economics and Applied Mathematics from ITAM, and a Masters and PhD in Economics from The University of Chicago, where he taught courses in Banking and International Finance.