Juan is a Policy Manager at IPA Mexico. He is responsible for evaluating a program on judicially-approved communication interventions by investigative police officers in Mexican General Attorney offices. After working in refugee legal status determination in East Africa and non-violent conflict resolution in sub-Saharan Africa, he carried out scholarly and applied research on criminal justice reform, focusing on policing and penitentiary systems. Juan holds a PhD in Political Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, an MA in Human Rights from Essex, UK, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Data Science from the University of Texas at Austin.