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.

Guilherme is a Tenured Professor at the Law Department of ITAM since August 2023. He had originally joined ITAM in 2019 as Profesor Asociado (tenure-track), after sessional and full-time teaching and research appointments in Australia (James Cook University and The University of Queensland), China (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Finland (University of Helsinki) and Italy (La Sapienza). He taught an intensive seminar at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).

Sandra Lorena Villalobos Orozco has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from Eastern Michigan University, with a minor in Anthropology. She also has a Master of Arts degree in Spanish from the same institution. After graduating, she worked as a lecturer at Eastern Michigan, teaching Spanish as a second language at the beginning and intermediate level. Her main interests are sociolinguistics, Spanish language acquisition for second language and heritage learners, academic writing, and the design of written and oral Spanish proficiency tests.

Antonella Bandiera is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at ITAM in Mexico City, and has a Ph.D in Political Science from New York University (NYU). She specializes in political economy of development, and her research focuses on the consequences of weak institutions, including illegal markets, corruption, violence, and crime. In her work, Antonella uses quantitative approaches to causal inference, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs. She is currently working on projects in Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, and El Salvador.  

Tetsuya is an economic theorist. He did a PhD in Economics at Pennsylvania State University. His personal webpage contains links to his work.

Romeo Ortega was born in Mexico. He obtained his BSc in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Mexico, Master of Engineering from Polytechnical Institute of Leningrad, USSR, and the Docteur D`Etat from the PolitechnicalInstitute of Grenoble, France in 1974, 1978 and 1984 respectively. He then joined the National University of Mexico, where he worked until1989. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois in 1987-88 and at McGill University in 1991-1992, and a Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 1990-1991.  

Xinyang obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Johns Hopkins. Attracted by the beauty of the general equilibrium theory, he did a doctorate study in economics at Yale. Xinyang's main research field is economic theory. He likes questions on modeling economic agents, how these agents interact in a cooperative or competitive environment, the connections between economic models, and all sorts of applications. His interests in economic theory are complemented by their mathematical correspondence, in particular, analysis.