He served as a Member of Mexico’s 57th Congress from 1997 to 2000. He did his undergraduate work at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), graduated from McGill University in Montréal, and pursued doctoral studies at the National University, UNAM. He is a founder and current Vice-President of the Mexican Council on International Affairs (COMEXI). Since 2008 he serves on the Advisory Board of the Mexico Institute at the Washington, DC-Woodrow Wilson Center.