Alejandro Navarrete served as head of the radioelectric spectrum unit at the Federal Institute of Telecommunications, Mexico’s regulatory body for telecommunications and broadcasting, from October 2014 until its ceasing of operations in 2025.

Previously, Navarrete was head of the radio and television systems unit at the same institute and deputy general director of that unit in the former Federal Telecommunications Commission. From 2004 to 2012, he served as general director of the Center for Research and Innovation in Telecommunications (Cinit) of the National Chamber of the Cable Telecommunications Industry (Canitec), where he led strategic initiatives in regulatory and technological matters.

Navarrete also worked as coordinator of advisors to the undersecretary of communications and as director of television at the Ministry of Communications and Transportation. For more than thirty years, he has taught at private universities, authored and coauthored textbooks in mathematics and technology, and participated on academic, business, and regulatory advisory boards.

He earned a degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 1989 and a master of science in communications and signal processing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 1995.

Navarrete was an event speaker at the Dialogue.