Luis Carlos Ugalde is general director of Integralia Consultores and a Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC. He served as president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Commission (IFE) from 2003 to 2007, where he presided over the country’s highly contested 2006 presidential election.
Ugalde has taught at several universities in Mexico and the United States, including the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM); the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) in Mexico City; Georgetown University; and American University. In 2008, he was the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard University, where he had also been a fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in 2001.
In addition to his role at IFE, Ugalde has held senior government positions in Mexico, including chief of staff to the Secretary of Energy and chief of staff at the Embassy of Mexico to the United States. He is the author of numerous publications, including Así lo viví: Testimonio de la elección presidencial más competida en la historia moderna de México (2008).
Ugalde holds a PhD in political science (1999) and a master’s degree in public administration (1992) from Columbia University, and a BA in economics from ITAM (1990).
