Dr. Monárrez currently holds the Director of Strategic Intelligence position at EGADE Business School. Her specialized teaching areas include the economics of businesses, microeconomics, econometrics, and business intelligence. She is also a member of the Business Analytics research group.  
 
Before this, Dr. Monárrez was the National Coordinator of Academic Majors at EGADE Business School. She has also worked as Director of Economic Studies at Talous Consulting, an expert for the social development committee in Nuevo León, an editor of BREVIS economic and business reports (focused on Latin America) and OKOMOS, focused on Mexico. She has designed a range of courses in universities such as Harvard, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Universidad de Monterrey, and EGADE Business School.
 
Dr. Monárrez has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in applied statistics from Tecnológico de Monterrey; she has completed a master’s degree in public policy and international development with a concentration in national and international economic policy at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. She holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her areas of interest include business analytics and international economy.

Dr. Velarde is a Research Professor at the Department of Finance and Business Economics at EGADE Business School. His fields of teaching and research include macroeconomics and microeconomics, corporate finance, bond markets, and capital markets. He has published on various economic and financial themes, including various papers on the valuation of public companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange and case studies at a national and international level, including “México:¿Se hubiera podido prevenir la crisis de 1994?” and “Selling? That is easy".

In the corporate world, he has worked as an analyst at Vector Casa de Bolsa and as Deputy Director of Economic and Financial Studies at GBM Grupo Bursátil Mexicano. In the public sector, at the federal level, he was a member of the group of economic advisors of the Ministry of Economy. He has also been an economic and financial advisor to private companies and has participated as a mentor and consultant in company incubators and accelerators.

Dr. Velarde also belongs to several academic and professional associations, including the American Academy of Financial Management, the Association of Economists of Nuevo Leon, and the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives.

Dr. Velarde was Director of Academic Programs and Director of the Department of Finance and Business Economics of EGADE Business School, Director of the Enlace E+E: Emprendedores de Alto Valor program, as well as Director of the Business Park: Innovation for the Corporate Services at the Santa Fe Campus and Director of the Center of Business and Financial Consulting and Research on the Guadalajara Campus.

Dr. Saucedo has been a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (2009-2011) and has worked as Alternate Director in the Automotive Industry in the Sub Secretariat of Industry and Commerce (2001-2004) in the Secretariat of Economy of the Federal Government. He has also been a financial analyst in General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC).

Currently, he is a member of the SNI, (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores), Conacyt  as well as the American Economic Hispanic Association, and the Western Social Science Association.

In addition to his teaching activities at EGADE Business School, he has served as professor in the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (2012-2016), in New Mexico State University (2009-2011), as well as at the University of Houston and University of Cincinnati.

Dr. René Cabral is a Research Professor at the Department of Finance and Business Economics at EGADE Business School and Leader of the Thematic Area Research Group (GAT) in Financial Innovation.

The research work of Professor Cabral Torres is directed towards the study of public finance, monetary policy, and the interaction of labout markets, as well as the manner in which these three areas affect the economic development of regions and countries.

His most recent research works have been published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Economy, Contemporary Economic Policy, International Journal of Educational Development, Annals of Regional Science and Journal of Policy Modelling, among others. He is also assistant editor in the Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance (REMEF) IMEF and a member of the editorial committee of the journal Economic Research. Mr. Cabral is a member of the SNI (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores), Level II.

He has also been a consultant for the World Bank and has participated in consulting projects for companies such as Minera Autlan and Axtel, institutions such as the Consulate of Canada and Metropolitan Water Fund of Monterrey, as well as for the state governments of Aguascalientes, Tabasco, Chiapas and Nuevo León.

Dr. Fonseca Ramirez’s areas of research and teaching comprise finance, international finance, financial modeling, econometrics, and risk management. He has published numerous academic articles on finance and economy in journals such as the Journal of International Management, Accountancy and Management, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Stochastics, of the Autonomous Metropolitan University. He has also been recognised for his work on The Great Recession 2007-2012 (La Gran Recesión 2007-2012, IMEF).

Professor Fonsesca Ramirez has worked in several educational institutions, such as the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics and the University of Texas in Austin, where he was an assistant researcher. This was in addition to his distinguished academic career as professor and researcher at Tecnológico de Monterrey.