Mario Alvarez Ledesma

Mario Ignacio Álvarez Ledesma is a Mexican lawyer, politician, and professor, author of law and human rights books and articles. He has been First Visitor General of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) (1997-1998) has served as Executive Director of the Human Rights National Center of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH). Álvarez has given a chair in Universidad de Anáhuac, Universidad Latinoamericana, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, the Law School unit at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad de Nápoles Federico II, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici and the Law School of Universidad de Perugia. Member of the “Claustro de Doctores” at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Early life and education Mario Álvarez Ledesma had his academic formation in Mexico and Spain. He earned his bachelor's degree in the Anahuac University and his master's degree in the Institutes of Comparative Law and Human Rights at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. His doctorate in law is from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In the 1980s, he was a student of Gregorio Peces-Barba, who was the head of a group of intellectuals at the Human Rights Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Career Mario Ignacio Álvarez Ledesma is a Mexican lawyer and politician, and the author of many books related to the introduction in the study of Law and Human Rights. He is a fluent speaker of Spanish, English, and Italian.

He has been a professor in the law school of the Anahuac University, ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), and in the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is the co-founder of Anahuac University law school's journal. In 1993, he founded the law department in the UDLA (Universidad de la Américas, A.C.), and was the first to propose the creation of an academic program that combined subjects of the legal system of Mexico, USA, and Canada. He has taught courses and seminars in Mexico and abroad and has published various articles in legal magazines, specialized in topics related to Theory of Justice and human rights. Since January 2008, he is the director of the Department of Legal and Social Sciences at Tec de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de México. according to official sources, they detected that he did not declare some of the expenses he made. Álvarez has an expenditure of around 300 thousand pesos as personal expenses used in November 2006 in Baja California, México.