Professor Alejandro Navarro Arredondo holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a Master's degree in Administration and Public Policy from the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE).

He was a visiting researcher at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He was General Director of Legislative Analysis at the Instituto Belisario Domínguez. He also worked as a researcher at the Center for Social Studies and Public Opinion. He currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Politics and Culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus since March 2018.

His lines of research are education, poverty, social policy, local development, participation, and accountability.

He has published several books and articles related to education policy, public management, intergovernmental coordination, accountability, and social policy. He has also served as a consultant on environmental policy for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the National Institute of Ecology. He is a professor in the Graduate Program in Public Administration at UNAM and has teaching experience at FLACSO, CIDE, Universidad Iberoamericana and Universidad de Guanajuato.