He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Law and Political Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey with honorable mention of excellence. He also obtained a Master's degree in Human Rights and a PhD in Legal Research at Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla, both degrees with honors.
Since May 2016 he has been a member of the André Hauriou Inn chapter of Phi Delta Phi The International Legal Honor Society. In addition, in May 2017, he was awarded the CENEVAL Award for Outstanding Performance in the EGEL Law Examination.
He served at the Human Rights Commission of the State of Puebla from May 2017 to February 2019, and subsequently at the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City from June 2019 to June 2020.
From June to December 2024, he taught the course Access to Justice and Diversity in the Administrative Law specialization program at the Administrative Court of the State of Mexico.
Since 2020, he has carried out various research activities, including participation in seminars and conferences in Mexico and Spain. He has also worked as a research assistant, and as author and co-author of indexed articles and book chapters. His research focuses primarily on the study of militarization from a human rights perspective and on the legal study of intersectionality.
Also since 2020, he has engaged in academic and teaching activities at Tecnológico de Monterrey on the Puebla, Toluca, and Querétaro campuses. He is currently the Entry-Level Program Director at the School of Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro Campus.
Overall, he has nine years of experience in monitoring and assisting victims in cases submitted to Mexico¿s non-jurisdictional human rights protection system. He has also worked extensively as a researcher and educator at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels, specializing in human rights, intersectionality, and research methodology in the Social Sciences, with particular emphasis on Law.
fernando.chavez@tec.mx