He received his bachelors and masters in political science and public administration from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 1976 and 1978 respectively.

He has been a tenured professor and researcher at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies, Mexico City Campus (ITESM) since 2005.

[4] In addition, he has also given courses and done research projects and fellowships with Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government since 2003 as a specialist in political analysis.

[9] To counter this, he says the Mexico needs parliamentary democracy, social reforms, civil and political rights, along with the strengthening of the local municipality system and federalism among the country’s 31 states, using Western Europe as an example.

[6] Fernández Santillán has published and translated numerous articles which have appeared Mexico and internationally, including all of the major Spanish speaking countries of the world.