Affiliated researchers

Affiliated researchers

Alfredo Orellana Moyao

Alfredo Orellana Moyao

Alfredo specializes in Sectoral Regulation.

He has worked in high levels jobs in the federal government, Legislative Power and Judiciary.

Author of GPS Energy and Vademécum of Energy.

Currently, he is the Coordinator of the Environment and Sustainability of the Mexican Bar Association (B.C).

President and founder of the company Inteligencia Regulatoria: ADN Análisis and Diseño Normativo.

Carlos Mena Labarthe

Carlos Mena Labarthe

Associate Member of the company Creel, García Cuellar Aiza y Enríquez in Mexico City, in the areas of economic competence, research and regulatory compliance. ITAM Graduate, Master’s Degree in Business Law by the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (ICAM) in Spain with a remarkable mention in 2004, and MSc in Economic Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science, the United Kingdom, with the award for the best performance of his generation in 2005.

Selected as one of the 40 best lawyers of competence under the age of 40 in the world by

Global Competition Review. He collaborated as the first incumbent of

the research authority, General Director of Absolute Monopolyc Practices Research and Head of the International Affairs, Linkage and Planning in COFECE. Professor and founder of the Diploma Course of the law of Economic Competence and Regulation of the Economy in ITAM.

Co-author of seven books in Economic Competence, Regulation and Energy.

Eduardo Pérez Motta

Eduardo Pérez Motta

Associate Member of the company SAI Derecho y Economía, specializing in economic competence, regulation and international trade.

President of Comisión Federal de Competencia (2004-2013). In 2012, Eduardo was designated President of the International Competition Network (ICN). Mexican Ambassador in the World Trade Organization (2001-2004).

Previously, he was the office manager in Brussels for negotiating the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and the European Union.

BA in Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and Phd’s studies in the University of California, Los Angeles.

Elena Estavillo

Elena Estavillo

Expert in topics of the digital ecosystem, competence, regulation, gender and leadership, with a special focus on exponential technologies and data, as well as the transformation they generate on our society.

Founder and general director of the laboratory of ideas Centro-i para la Sociedad del Futuro.

President and co-founder of Conectadas, which received the Champion Award (2020) in Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society, International Telecommunication Union. Commissioner founder of the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones.

José Roldán Xopa

José Roldán Xopa

BA in Law, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP). Research profesor in Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE). Author of different publications, highlighting Administrative Law, edited by the Oxford University Press.

Lina Ornelas

Lina Ornelas

BA in Law, Universidad de Guadalajara. Master’s degree in International Legal Cooperation, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Expert in information classification, files, data protection, privacy and Internet governance. Lina has published books and papers on these topics. For eight years and a half, Lina was head of Google for Relations with Government and Public Policy in Mexico, Centeramerica and the Caribbean. Previously, she worked for 12 years in the public sector in Mexico and Europe. She worked at the Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información Pública y Protección de Datos (IFAI) for nine years, firstly as general director of Personal Data and Classification, later as general director of Self-regulation in personal data privacy. 

Daniel Sokol

Daniel Sokol

Professor of Law, USC Gould and Affiliate Professor USC Marshall. Professor D. Daniel Sokol focuses his teaching and scholarship on complex business issues from early stage start-ups to large multinational businesses and the issues that businesses face: antitrust, data security, corporate governance, compliance, innovation, pricing strategies, M&A, collusion, AI, digital transformation, and digital strategy. Sokol is also among the top 10 most cited antitrust law professors in the past five years. He also has testified or presented his work to antitrust/competition authorities in the United States and around the world. At USC Gould, he serves as the Faculty Director of the Center for Transnational Law and Business. At USC Marshall, he is Co-Director of the Initiative on Digital Competition.

Juan Fernando Ibarra Del Cueto

Juan Fernando Ibarra Del Cueto

Assistant professor of Political Science at Colgate University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and specializes in the field of comparative politics, with a regional focus on Latin America. His research focuses on the study of state capacity, democratization, and the relationship between political and economic development.

Liliana Millan

Liliana Millan

Data Scientist with more than 10 years of experience in industry projects and social impact projects. MSc in Computational Finance, Nottingham University. Master’s degree in Data Science, ITAM. Engineer in computational systems with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Liliana had been Technical Mentor of Data Science for Social Good Foundation, Imperial College London. Her research is mainly focused on Ethical Machine Learning, Model Fairness, Machine Learning, Text Mining and Intelligence Ag Text Mining and Intelligence Agents.