Doctor Jesús Zavala Ruiz has been a Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, in Mexico City, since 2016. He has an interdisciplinary academic background. He studied at the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mexico. He is an agronomist engineer specializing in irrigation. He has a Master´s in Computer Science with orientation in Intelligent Systems and Information Management and the Master and Ph.D. in Organizational Studies oriented towards organizational analysis and the development of a theory of self-organization of projects at UAM.

Professor Zavala worked in the primary sector in agricultural production, and in the tertiary sector, he worked in medium and large national and multinational companies in engineering, banking, software development, and professional training in Mexico. In the public sector, he worked for the federal government in the National Water Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture. In the education sector, he has worked for private and public universities since 2000. He has taught at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels and has directed several master's theses in computer science.

His lines of research are also interdisciplinary: software engineering on which he has published several articles, one of which is a theoretical proposal; organizational analysis from the perspective of clinical sociology and has developed a methodology applicable to software companies and projects; the theory of self-organization and has proposed an interdisciplinary theoretical model applicable to the self-managing development of work groups, projects and organizations and entrepreneurship in all economic sectors; the phenomenology of experience in rural tourism on which he has published some papers and interdisciplinarity as a methodological approach.