He is an affiliated professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) from 2009 to date. Professor and researcher at El Colegio de México (COLMEX), and former director of the Center for Asian and African Studies at the same institution. He holds a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and completed postgraduate studies at the British universities of Leeds and Sussex. He is a Fellow of the Center for International Studies at Harvard University and was Ambassador of Mexico to Costa Rica, Argentina, Austria, Brazil and China. He is a permanent representative of Mexico to the United Nations-Vienna and alternate representative of Mexico to the Security Council of the United Nations (UN). Author of the books: “International Financial Markets” (2012); “China from the Xia to People's Republic (2070 B.C.-1949)” co-authored with Ugo Pipitone, (2012); “People's Republic of China. From Utopia to the Market”, co-authored with Ugo Pipitone, (2014); “Reformed China and its Dilemmas in the 21st Century”, co-authored with Maria Teresa Rodriguez, (2019).