Professor Ricardo Alberto Yocelevzky Retamal studied Sociology, Political Science and History. With a Doctorate in History from the University of Warwick. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), where he teaches at the Xochimilco Campus in the Department of Politics and Culture in the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities.

He is a member of the Mexican Association of Sociology. He has directed several undergraduates, master's, and doctoral theses. He has published books of his authorship and co-authorship, as well as compilations, individually and in collaboration, in addition to several articles and chapters in collective books.

He has participated in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities. He has supervised bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses at the UAM and at FLACSO and El Colegio de México, institutions where he also taught courses, as well as at the Mora Institute.

His lines of research are Parties and Party Systems, Political systems, and their historical changes. He currently works on analyzing electoral situations, global ideological struggles, and specifically in the social sciences.