Within an academic world governed by specialization, Carlos McCadden has preferred to live the integration and synthesis of different knowledges. From 1974 to 1982 he studied simultaneously the Licentiate Degrees in Economics and Social Sciences at the ITAM, and the Licentiate Degree in Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana. During the academic year 1981-82 he taught at the Academic Departments of General Studies and Economics at ITAM.

Dr. Valeria Zepeda Trejo has a PHD degree in History by the Universidad Iberoamericana and a MA degree in Modern and Contemporary History by the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José Ma. Luis Mora.  She is currently a full time professor at ITAM, where she studied a BA in International Relations, and throughout 11 years she has teach different courses such as Socio-Political History of Mexico; Contemporary Issues and Problems of the Mexican Reality; History of International Relations and Mexico-USA Relations. Dr.

He is Dean of the Division of Engineering, Head of the Digital Systems Department and full-time professor and researcher. He holds MIT Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, as well as a B.Sc. degree in mechanical-electrical engineering from UNAM. He lectures a variety of courses related to signal propagation in the physical layer of communications networks, and conducts basic research about the presence and implications of astronomical dimension electromagnetic waves. At the same time, Dr.

Joyce Sadka is a professor and researcher at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, in the Department of Law and the Center for Economic Research. In 2021 she was appointed Head of the Department of Law. She earned a PhD from Rice University and a Juris Doctor from George Mason University School of Law. Since 2005, Joyce has developed an empirical research agenda on labor law and justice. She has gathered databases from more than 35,000 casefiles of firing lawsuits from 4 important labor courts in Mexico.

Alejandro Teran serves as the Director for the Industrial Engineering Program at ITAM. He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, México, his M.S. in Operations Research from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University.

His areas of interest include Engineering Education, Quality Engineering, Production Engineering and Operations Research.

Dr. Guillermo Abdel Musik is Director of the Center for Competitiveness Studies at ITAM and professor of Operations Management, Pricing Strategy and International Competitiveness. In the last 17 years he has coordinated and participated in more than 150 research and consulting projects for a wide variety of companies, governments, and international organizations. He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from ITAM, a Masters in Regional Science (University of Pennsylvania), a Ph.D.

She holds an Actuarial Science Bachelor degree from ITAM and a PhD in Statistics and Operations Research from University of Essex, England. She joined the ITAM faculty in Actuarial Science in 1998. She is Director of the BSc Actuarial Science Program at ITAM and Coordinator of the Actuarial Science Department at ITAM. She is full time professor and researcher at ITAM; she belongs to the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). She is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries (SOA).