UP Campus: Guadalajara

Yurixhi Gallardo Martínez is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level I).

She holds a Doctor of Law degree from the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus, which allowed her to earn a Master’s degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Universidad Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona, Spain; she also holds a Master’s degree in the History of Thought from the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus. In addition, she has participated in various educational programs, including those organized by the Institute of Autonomous Studies of the Government of Catalonia and the College of Jalisco, as well as those offered by The Phoenix Institute: Issues in Political Philosophy at Abat Oliba CEU University in Barcelona, Spain; the Summer Program for the Study of Western Institutions at the University of Notre Dame; and Modernity, Relativism, and Cultural Revival at Exeter College, Oxford.

Co-author of *Keys to Understanding Compliance in Mexico* (Tirant lo Blanch, 2024). Editor of *Practical Cases in Ethics for Legal Professionals in Mexico* (Tirant lo Blanch, 2020) and *Mexico and Its Legal System*, published by the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, and Carolina Academic Press (2018). Member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Bar Association, Jalisco Chapter, A.C. She is a member of the International Association of Legal Ethics. She serves as an academic peer reviewer for the Council for the Accreditation of Legal Education, A.C. (CONAED), where she has evaluated educational institutions in Mexico and Peru.

Her research focuses on legal ethics, compliance, and the teaching of professional ethics—topics she discusses at national and international academic conferences and in various publications. She has participated in international research groups, including one led by Neil W. Hamilton at the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions. She is a guest columnist for the newspapers El Informador and Mural. On the radio, she has served as a commentator on the news program Así las Cosas on W Radio Guadalajara.

Susana A. Ochoa Torres holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Finance, a Master’s degree in Education, a Master’s degree in Philosophy, and a Ph.D. in Economic Development, with her dissertation focusing on the inclusion of women in the workforce. She is currently a professor classified as a researcher, Head of the Academy of Social Philosophy and the Division of Family Studies in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus, Jalisco, Mexico. She is a certified consultant in Social Responsibility by the Mexican Center for Philanthropy (CEMEFI) and an international auditor for the SA 8000 Social Responsibility standard. She is a tenured professor of ethics and social and political philosophy, as well as Social Responsibility, at various higher education institutions across the country. In 2017, she won first place internationally at Harvard University’s Institute of Microeconomics for Competitiveness with Professor Michael Porter for a project on a higher education cluster in Russia.

She is a passionate advocate for person-centered feminism and serves as coordinator, member, and founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Feminist Studies (GIEF). She is Chair of the Equity Committee at Levy Holding.

He has published scientific papers at various conferences and in the Q1 journal Heliyon.

She has published three books: *Social Leadership*, *Adolescence: A Guide from Parents to Parents*, and *A New Perspective on Social Commitment*; the first two are practically out of print.
She has been married for 32 years and is the mother of two daughters.

Research Professor at the Institute of Humanities, Guadalajara Campus, where she teaches courses in Anthropology and Ethics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from the International University of Catalonia (Spain), with a dissertation titled “The Role of Desire in the Moral Philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre.” She is an expert on the relationship between desires, human fulfillment, and character formation. Her other areas of interest and research, closely linked to the above, focus on anthropological ethics, the theory of action, virtues, and practical reasoning.

His publications include, among others:

“MacIntyre, Desire, and Virtues” (2022a). In F. Javier de la Torre, Maximiliano Loria, and Lucion Nontón (Eds.), *Forty Years of Alasdair MacIntyre’s *After Virtue*: Ibero-American Reinterpretations*. Dykinson: Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-1122-298-3 (pp. 47–57).

“Narrative, Practical Reasoning, and Rational Desire” (2022b). In Sante Maletta, Dario Mazzola, and Damiano Simoncelli (Eds.), *Practical Rationality and Human Difference: Perspectives on and Beyond Alasdair MacIntyre*. Mimesis International: Milan. ISBN: 9788869774119 (pp. 101–110).

Review (2023): Bosch, M. (Ed., 2020). *Desire and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Positive Psychology, Moral Education, and Virtue Ethics*. Springer. 451 pp. In *Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía*, no. 65, Jan–Apr (2023), ISSN: 0188-6649 (pp. 2007–8498 in print), (pp. 465–470 online).

“The Influence of Governance Practices on Social Compartmentalization and the Fragmentation of Desires.” (2024). *Empresa y Humanismo* Journal, University of Navarra. Published January–March 2024.

Dr. Rómulo Ramírez Daza y García is a Philosopher and Member of the National System of Researchers, Level I. He is a Professor Categorized UP Level A. Professor Categorized UP Level A. Degree in Philosophy from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Master in Philosophy from the University of Guadalajara and Doctor in Philosophy from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Author of 40 scientific publications including articles, book chapters on various topics of ancient Greek philosophy, 2 self-authored books, and 1 co-authored book.

Since 2007 he is Professor-Researcher at the Institute of Humanities of the Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara. Member of the International Society of Greek Philosophy, Spain and Portugal. Collaborator of the Academic Body: Logic, Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation of the University of Guadalajara. Member of the Mexican Academy of Rhetoric of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Iberoamerican Organization of Rhetoric and the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy. Member of the Philosophical Association of Mexico and the Mexican Association of Classical Studies. Current Research Secretary of the Institute of Humanities of the Universidad Panamericana, Campus Guadalajara. His specialized line of research is Ancient Philosophy and Argumentation, especially in Plato, Aristotle, antecedent traditions and reception of these two thinkers in posterity.

Professor of theology at UP since August 2015, he has been engaged in teaching and biblical-theological dissemination activities since 2006. He was producer and host of an international Catholic television channel and frequently collaborates in different media such as radio, podcast and social networks. His teaching scope covers a wide spectrum, from small groups in church settings and institutes, the university classroom and academic conferences, or participation in large forums for the general public. His professional studies include Industrial and Systems Engineering (Tec de Monterrey), Specialization in Anthropology and Ethics (UP) and Master in Theology (Aquinas Institute of Theology).

From Monterrey NL. D. in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He studied Journalism and Media at the Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey with a major in audiovisual production. With several years of experience in the field of journalism, he is now dedicated to priestly ministry and teaching. He is a chaplain and professor of Theological Anthropology and other subjects at Universidad Panamericana.

University chaplain. Doctor of Philosophy.

Pablo Sahagún Kunhardt, is a professor at the Institute of Humanities of the Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara (Mexico). He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from RWTH University, Aachen, Germany. He studied theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and philosophy at the University of Navarra in Pamplona. He is currently a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. For his doctorate he is researching two authors: Michael Tomasello, an American developmental psychologist and Leonardo Polo, a Spanish philosopher.

Dr. Montserrat Salomón Ferrer studied her bachelor's and doctorate in philosophy at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico campus. Her doctoral thesis: "Disability and Justice: Reflections on the recognition of people with disabilities from the approach of capabilities and fair equality of opportunity" obtained top honors. She worked in a political and media consultancy for more than 10 years. She also worked for a few years in the publishing industry as Non-Fiction Editor at Nostra Ediciones. In the public sector, she worked as a legal consultant and private secretary at the INEA Delegation in Mexico City. Since 2009 until today she writes a weekly column on international politics in the newspaper La Razón. She has been a professor of various philosophical subjects at the university level since 2003 to date, including: Philosophy of Nature, Cosmology, Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology and Person and Society. She has also been a guest professor of the PhD in Bioethics at Universidad Panamericana Campus Mexico with topics related to distributive justice in health issues. She has participated as a speaker in several congresses and conferences. She has also conducted research stays abroad. She has been Coordinator of the Department of Humanities and General Coordinator of the Open University for the careers of Philosophy and Pedagogy at Universidad Panamericana, Campus Mexico. At the Panamericana campus Guadalajara she has been Head of the Academy of Anthropology and Ethics and Professional Ethics. She currently serves as Academic Secretary of the Institute of Humanities, Campus Guadalajara.

It operates in the academic and university environment in three ways. In the first place, it promotes in university students an interest in the great humanistic themes, through the philosophical subjects it teaches. Secondly, it wishes to pursue research on anthropological and ethical themes that have points of contact with the cognitive and affective aspects of Thomas Aquinas. Finally, to collaborate in the formation of university students through university counseling, coaching processes and the promotion of extracurricular activities that allow the forging of an integral humanistic profile.

He studied Industrial Engineering at Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara (2000-2005), specializing in the area of Operations Management. Subsequently, he completed his B.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome (2006-2011). His thesis is entitled "From Passion to Virtue. The rational order of affectivity in Thomas Aquinas". He has also studied Theology at the Baccalaureate level (2005-). She completed the Specialty in Didactic Competencies at UP in 2018. Subsequently, at the same University, she took the Certification for University Advisors (2018-19) and has taken programs of personal coaching tools taught by Vortice, Integrando Excelencia (GPR, Global Program for Human Resilience), and by Elena Lorenzo ("Identity Course" and the "Power of your other hand"), from 2020-2022.

Currently (2021-) she is in charge of the Head of the Academy of Theology at Universidad Panamericana campus Guadalajara. She has been a professor for seventeen years. Since her return to Mexico she is a professor of Humanities at the UP campus Guadalajara, teaching Theological Anthropology I, Person and Society and Ethics. At the Centro Internazionale Villa Balestra she has taught Philosophy of Knowledge and Philosophy of Science (2007-2009). At the primary level he has taught Religion (2001-2014) at the Centro Escolar Los Altos.

He has participated in different seminars of the DISF Working Group (2006-2009) and PUSC Philosophy Congresses (2006-2011).

She worked in the School Services department at UP during the implementation of People Soft (2004-2005). During his studies in Rome he was part of the team that manages the Library of the Centro Internazionale Villa Balestra in the area of purchasing and capture in UNIX.

She has leadership experience in training activities aimed at university students in the intellectual, cultural, growth in values and support to needy communities, promoted by the La Barca University Residence and the Alhena University Center.