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He is the Head of the Intercampi Academy of Theology at Universidad Panamericana. D. and Master in Theology from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), he received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, a Bachelor in Theology from the University of the Holy Cross (Rome) and a Licentiate in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana (Mexico).

He is Secretary of the Mexican Academy of Theology, Dean of the Studium Generale of the Prelature of Opus Dei in Mexico and Academic Secretary of the Digital Theological Institute (ITED).

His publications and research revolve around the discourse of faith in the public space of a secular society; as well as the credibility of faith and the reasonableness of Christian revelation, from an anthropological approach that serves as a bridge of dialogue between the two; along with issues of theological methodology and introduction to the Holy Scriptures.

He has published eleven books, including academic research in Philosophy and Theology, as well as popular works on Bioethics and on the pontiffs Benedict XVI and Francis. He is a contributor to several indexed journals; for 14 years he wrote more than 800 articles in the column Fe y Razón, which was published in Mexico, United States, Spain, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Chile. He has given more than 60 conferences to priests, university professors and students, businessmen, as well as to the general public.

María José Urteaga Rodríguez is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She earned a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2014) and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana 2009). Since 2011, she has been a research professor at the Institute of Humanities. Her areas of interest are epistemology and social philosophy.

D. in History of Thought. She was Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Classical Letters at Brown University (USA). She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Pedagogy from Universidad Panamericana. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Theology from the University of the Holy Cross (Rome). She is an English teacher (The Anglo Institute, CELE-UNAM, Cambridge University, TKT). She teaches Theological Anthropology I and II, Ethics, Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Hospitality (ESDAI). She has published a book entitled Hospitality in the Odyssey, and articles related to hospitality, education and the thought-language relationship. Since 2011 she works as Professor-Researcher at the Institute of Humanities.

Professor Alejandro Sada received a Master's degree in Philosophy with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2016) and a PhD degree in Philosophy summa cum laude from the University of Navarra (2020), for which he obtained a scholarship from the Universidad Panamericana. Since 2011 he has worked as a Research Professor at this institution, where he has taught different undergraduate and graduate courses, such as History of Culture, Person and Society, Ethics, Theological Anthropology I and II, Introduction to Christianity, Social Philosophy, Man and Contemporary World, Joseph Ratzinger in dialogue with culture. He has published several specialized articles in scientific journals. Among his most recent publications are the books: Assent and Certainty in the Thought of John Henry Newman. A Defense of Religious Belief (Nun, 2021); Sense and Truth. Towards a New Understanding of Philosophy from the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger (BAC, 2023). He is editor, with Tracey Rowland and Rudy Albino de Assunção, of the book Ratzinger and the Philosophers. From Plato to Vattimo, soon to be published in English, Spanish and German (Bloomsbury, T&T Clark; Encuentro; Ratzinger Studien). He is especially interested in the relationship between faith and reason (theology and philosophy), and in the metaphysical and anthropological implications of the Christian faith. He is also engaged in the study of the thought of John Henry Newman and Joseph Ratzinger. He currently directs an international research group on the Collaboration between philosophy and theology in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger, which has obtained resources from the Research Promotion Fund for two consecutive years.

He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana, a M.A. in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universidad de Navarra and also from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He completed postdoctoral studies at the Centre Léon Robin of the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and the CNRS in France and is also a graduate of the D1 Program at IPADE. Currently, he is a professor-researcher at Universidad Panamericana, where he teaches Ontology for the Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy, Ethics at the Institute of Humanities and Theory of Knowledge for the Doctorate in Law. During the 2021-2022 school year, he was Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and the History of Philosophy Forum at the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Ross is a member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT level 2 and is the author of several articles, book chapters and specialized books in the field of Ancient Philosophy among which stand out the monograph "God, eternity and movement in Aristotle" and the volume "Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition" co-edited with Daniel Vázquez and which recently appeared in Brill's Plato Studies Series. From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Ross was Director of the School of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana and from 2015 to 2021 he was Vice Chancellor for Research at the same institution. In 2021, he assumed the Direction of the Institute of Humanities at UP and the Presidency of the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy (ALFA). He is also a member of the editorial committees of the Colección Filosófica of the EUNSA publishing house in Spain, of the Editorial NUN of Mexico, of the journal Aristotélica of Italy, of the Revista Istmo of IPADE and of the journals Bioethics UPdate published by UP and Elsevier. In addition, he has been evaluator of CONACYT of Mexico, CONICET of Argentina, FONDECYT of Chile and several national and international publications.

Semblanza: PhD in History of Thought from Universidad Panamericana (UP), Master in Philosophy from UNAM and Bachelor in Philosophy from UP. Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), CONAHCYT. Research Professor at the Institute of Humanities of the UP. Author of the book Música y matemática en la filosofía de Platón. Remedios y profilácticos contra el mal (NUN, 2021), as well as several book chapters and articles on Platonic philosophy, popularization and culture. Coordinated, together with Víctor-Isolino Doval, the book Diálogos sobre la guerra (NUN, 2023). Founding president of 3ntre logos, a center dedicated to the dissemination of philosophy. Member of the Philosophical Association of Mexico (AFM), the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy (ALFA) and the International Plato Society (IPS).

He studied a degree in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, did an exchange at the University of Navarra and later did the equivalent of a Master's degree at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at the same university on the study of Robert Spaemann's finality.