Luis Manuel C. Mejan

Luis Manuel C. Mejan holds a Doctorate in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He also holds a Teacher’s Diploma, a Master’s Degree in Civic and Social Education, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Law. He is a member of the Commission of External Advisors of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the field of Private International Law. He is an academic at ITAM and a professor in the graduate programs of Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City and Guadalajara. Professionally, he works as a consultant in matters of insolvency, the financial system, and corporate law. He has served as an expert in insolvency proceedings before courts in the United States and in arbitration cases. For thirty years, he was an attorney at Banco Nacional de México, S.A., where he served as Director of Legal Advisory to the General Management and as Deputy Secretary of the Bank and the Financial Group. He chaired the Legal Committee of the Mexican Bankers Association (Asociación de Banqueros de México, A.C.). From its inception and for ten years, he was the Director General of the Federal Institute of Specialists in Commercial Bankruptcy (Instituto Federal de Especialistas de Concursos Mercantiles), during which time he also chaired the International Association of Insolvency Regulators. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Lawyers (ANADE), the Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados), and numerous international professional associations, including IIDC, IIDF, ACB, III, IEEI, INSOL, among others. He also serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals in Mexico and Peru. He is a speaker at universities, professional organizations, and conferences in multiple countries. He is the author of about fifteen books and numerous articles published in specialized journals, as well as chapters in collective works in Mexico and abroad, primarily in the field of insolvency law. Dr. Méjan is a member of the Mexican Delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency); Mexico’s representative in the UNIDROIT Digital Assets and Private Law Project, in the CBDC Project of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, and in the World Bank Working Group on Insolvency. He has also served as a consultant on specific projects for the World Bank Group.