Enrique Cardenas is a Faculty Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico. He has written extensively on Mexico's economic history and the contemporary Mexican economy. He has taught at Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, ITAM and El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico and at the University of Oxford in the UK. He was cofounder of Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias in Mexico City where he served as Executive Director for 12 years.