Professor Ignacio Marcelino López Sandoval is a professor attached to the Department of Institutional Studies at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences with a specialization in Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Mexico), a Master in Economics from the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), a Master in Government and Public Affairs (FLACSO-Mexico) and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Faculty of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He is an Agricultural Engineer specialized in agricultural economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo (UACH).

His research interests are 1) Economics, rational choice, and institutional analysis of government public policies; 2) Institutional analysis of the company and its impact on economic development; 3) Globalization and economic reforms in the institutional framework of public policies; 4) Economic and political analysis of electoral processes as a determinant of economic development; 5) Institutional problems of poverty, welfare and economic development; and 6) Institutions, regulation, and change in the energy sector.