Dr. Jorge Javier Romero Vadillo holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He serves as a Full Professor-Researcher in the Department of Politics and Culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco.

He is a political scientist specializing in political institutions, with research focusing on the Mexican political regime, institutional change, state reform, the institutional framework governing education in Mexico, drug policy, and the process of militarization in Mexico. His recent scholarship centers on the historical trajectory of Mexican institutions, processes of democratic erosion, the militarization of public security, and contemporary constitutional transformations.

In his visiting academic engagements, he was a visiting researcher at the University Institute for Research in Latin American Studies at the University of Alcalá from 2022 to 2024, a visiting professor at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Spain, and a visiting professor in the Drug Policy, Health, and Human Rights Program at CIDE from 2014 to 2016. Furthermore, he served as director of CIDE’s Diploma Program in Drug Policy, Health, and Human Rights from 2015 to 2022.

His published books include Para entender las instituciones políticas (Understanding Political Institutions, Nostra, 2010) and El poder de la legalización ante la violencia generada por el tráfico de drogas en México (The Power of Legalization in the Face of Violence Generated by Drug Trafficking in Mexico, Terracota, 2024). He also serves as the editorial director of El Diluvio magazine.