Luis Carlos Ugalde Ramírez (born 1966 in Mexico City) is a Mexican scholar who served as president of the Federal Electoral Institute from 2003 to 2007.
Eventually, the pressure from the political parties resulted in a legal reform that would attempt to rectify the illegalities that occurred in the 2006 elections.
The 2007 Electoral Reform included the dismissal of Luis Carlos Ugalde from his position by designing a new president of the IFE.
He has authored numerous publications, including As I Lived It: A Testimony of the Most Competitive Election in the Modern History of Mexico (2008, in Spanish).
He is also the author of The Mexican Congress: Old Player, New Power, a book published in 2000 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.