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Dr. Juan Arturo Guillén Romo was a Full Professor and Researcher (Level C) at the Department of Economics of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) at the Iztapalapa Campus. He also served as a Professor in the Graduate Program in Social Studies, specializing in the Social Economy Line at UAM Iztapalapa. Additionally, he was a National Researcher in the National System of Researchers (SNI) and General Coordinator of the Euro-Latin American Network of Development Studies Celso Furtado.

He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Federal University of ABC in São Paulo, Brazil (2019–2020). He was also a Visiting Researcher at the Celso Furtado International Center for Development Policies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (September 2011–November 2012). Furthermore, he was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Globalization and International Studies at the University of Québec in Montreal (2004–2005) and at the Institute of Mathematics and Applied Economics (ISMEA) in Paris (2000).

Dr. Guillén Romo earned his Ph.D. in Economic Sciences at the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw, Poland, and held a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the National School of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

He was the author of numerous notable works, including El régimen de acumulación en México: caracterización, tendencias y propuestas para su transformación (2021), La crisis global en su laberinto (2015), México hacia el siglo XXI: crisis y modelo económico alternativo (2010, second corrected and expanded edition), Mito y realidad de la globalización neoliberal (2007), Problemas de la economía mexicana (1986), Imperialismo y ley del valor (1981), and Planificación económica a la mexicana (1971).

He coordinated and/or co-authored over 70 collective books and approximately 70 articles published in various national and international specialized journals, addressing topics such as the Mexican economy, financial economics, international economics, economic crises, and development theory.

Among the books he coordinated, the most notable include: Trayectorias y encrucijadas de las teorías del desarrollo en América Latina (2022), Estrategias para un desarrollo sustentable frente a las tres crisis (2013), Cómo construir el desarrollo hoy (2013), Tres crisis: economía, finanzas y medio ambiente (2011), Capitalismo: ¿Recuperación? ¿Descomposición? (2010), and Desarrollo y transformación: opciones para América Latina (2010).