Dr. Carlos Chávez Becker has been a Research Professor at the Lerma Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana since 2013. He is affiliated with the Department of Social Processes and holds the PRODEP “Desirable Profile” recognition. He coordinates the Academic Body “Governance, Citizen Participation, Cohesion, and Social Capital in Urban and Rural Contexts.”

He holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences and a Master’s degree in Political and Social Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Until 2018, he served as the representative of the academic, professional, scientific, and cultural sector on the Technical Advisory Council of the Interministerial Commission for the Promotion of Civil Society Organizations of the Federal Government. He was also a member and co-founder of the Network for the Study of Associative Performance.

His research areas include governance, civil society, citizen participation, collective action, and democratization processes. He is co-author of the book Civil Society Organizations in Mexico, editor of Rural Governance in Mexico, co-editor of Rural Civil Society in Mexico and Collective Action and Rural Organizations in Mexico, and co-author of the Protocol for the Evaluation of Associations.

He currently coordinates the Governance Working Group at COMECSO together with Eliana Arancibia and Francisco Porras, as well as the Interinstitutional Seminar on Governance Studies in Mexico and Latin America (2026–2028) with Carlos Torrealba and Eduardo Alva. He has served as a consultant for institutions such as the OECD, GIZ, UNDP, UNFPA, and 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 conducted research stays at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and at Carleton University in Canada.