Career
He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Psychology and a Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology from Universidad Veracruzana, Western Michigan University and West Virginia University, respectively. He has served as President of Universidad Veracruzana (1997-2004), General Director for Higher Education at the Federal Ministry of Public Education (Software Engineering Professionals , 1992-1997) and Academic Chairman at Mexico’s National Association of Universities and Institutes of Higher Education (ANUIES, 1980-1984).
He was Mexico’s representative at the Trilateral Steering Committee, responsible to outline parallel to North American Free Trade Agreement, the CONAHEC among Canada, United States of America and Mexico (1992-1997).
President of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (2003-2005), the most influential university collaboration agency in the American continent. And recipient of academic distinctions from universities of the Americas and Europe.
Applying Information and communications technology throughout the state educational system gained him the 2008 Max Shein from the Mexican Union of Entrepreneurs engaged in Educational Technology (UNETE). In 2010, Veracruz educational system, under his leadership, obtained some of the highest increases in Mexico on its average student scores, both in national (ENLACE) and international (PISA) examinations.
He is now committed to transferring high impact educational technologies and solutions, through strategic partnerships, along Mexico and Latin America.
