Professor Carlos Chávez Becker is a has been at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Lerma Campus since 2013. He is attached to the Department of Social Processes and has the recognition of "desirable profile" PRODEP. He is the coordinator of the Academic Group "Governance, Citizen Participation, Cohesion and Social Capital in urban and rural areas".

He is a Ph.D. candidate in Political and Social Sciences and Master´s in Political and Social Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He was, until 2018, representative of the academic, professional, scientific, and cultural sector in the Technical Advisory Board of the Intersecretarial Commission for the Promotion of the Activities of Civil Society Organizations of the Federal Government and member and co-founder of the Network of Studies on Associative Performance.

His research interests are governance, civil society, citizen participation, collective action and democratization processes. He is co-author of the book "Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en México", co-editor of the books "Sociedad civil rural en México" and "Acción colectiva y organizaciones rurales en México" and co-author of the Protocolo para la evaluación de asociaciones.

He currently coordinates the research projects "Gobernanza rural en México" and "Atlas de la Gobernanza en México". He has been a consultant for institutions such as OECD, GIZ, UNDP, UNFPA, IECM, among others. He is also an alumnus of the Global Governance Management Academy, sponsored by the German Development Institute of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. He has done research stays at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and at Carleton University, Canada.