Fernando Ojesto Martínez Manzur is the Fulbright-García Robles COMEXUS Mexico Studies Chair at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies during the spring of 2025. He is a professor of the philosophy of law, electoral law, and comparative law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Law School in Mexico City.
During his Kellogg visiting fellowship, he will work on his project “How to (Un)Build a Democracy: The Mexican Case,” which explores the electoral justice systems in the region, as well as the risks that democracy has been undergoing worldwide in recent years.
Ojesto has published more than thirty articles in journals and books specializing in issues of democracy and electoral matters and has given lectures at both national and international levels. He has served as project coordinator in the United Nations Development Program, held various positions in the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary in Mexico, and worked as an advisor at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN. He has collaborated as a consultant with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), the Organization of American States (OAS), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), the Center for Electoral Promotion and Assistance of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (CAPEL), and UN Women. He is the co-founder of the Think Tank CAIINNO, where he oversees the Democracy area.
Ojesto holds a JSD degree from the Faculty of Law at UNAM (2023) and an LLM from Columbia University, New York (2013). He is a former Fulbright-García Robles Scholar for graduate studies (2012-2013).
Spring 2025 : How to (Un)Build a Democracy: The Mexican Case