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.  

Miguel holds a B.A. in Economics from ITAM and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has combined work in government with academic research. When inflation targetting was being adopted by the Banco de México, he developed – with Lorenza Martínez and Alejandro Werner – one of the first structural models used for that purpose. He was the Chief Economist of the Ministry of Finance of Mexico, as well as Undersecretary for Revenues and Undersecretary for Finance.