Alejandro Ives Estivill Castro is a Mexican diplomat and novelist.
He holds a BA in Hispanic Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a PhD.
He participated in the workshop that would originate the Crack Movement in 1999, and with authors Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla and others published Variations of a Faulkner Theme, a book that won the National Story Prize that same year.
After his entrance into the Foreign Service in 1993, he has served as special advisor to the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Political Affairs Attaché for the Mexican Embassy in Costa Rica, Chief of Staff for the Undersecretary of Foreign Relations Enrique Berruga, Director General for Cultural Affairs and Director General for North American Affairs.
He held the position of Chargé d´Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy of Mexico in the United States.