Dr. Luis Manuel C. Mejan

Dr. Luis Manuel C. Méjan is a part-time professor and researcher in the Law School of the InstitutoTecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Rio Hondo, Mexico, and has been a lawyer and professor for more than 50 years. After four years of freelance law practice, he joined Banco Nacional de México as a lawyer in its Legal Department, where he worked for 30 years in such positions as executive vice president legal counselor to the CEO and deputy secretary of the administrative boards of Banco Nacional de México, S. A. and the Financial Group Banamex Accival, S. A. de C.V. Since May 2000 and until December 2009, Dr. Méjan was president of Mexico?s Federal Institute of Commercial InsolvencySpecialists (Instituto Federal de Especialistas Mercantiles, or IFECOM), the agency in charge of the administration of insolvency proceedings. In that capacity, he chaired the International Association ofInsolvency Regulators. He dedicated 2010 as a sabbatical doing some research on insolvency law at theUniversity Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In the academic field, Dr. Méjan has been a law professor since1962 in different educational centers, including as a member of the faculties of the graduate programsat the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico, D. F. and Guadalajara. He is also a lecturer at several uni-versities in the country, professional schools and associations, private groups, service clubs and notary colleges, and lecturer of many seminars and congresses both in México and abroad. Among his publications, Dr. Méjan has authored 13 books and a number of papers, chapters and articles on insolvency matters published in several publications in Mexico and abroad. He is Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the International Insolvency Institute, the Instituto Iberoamericano deDerecho Concursal, the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho y Finanzas, the International Exchange of Experience in Insolvency and the Mexican Bar Association. Among other studies, Dr. Méjan holdsa law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, a Ph.D. from the Universidad NacionalAutónoma de México, and a Master?s degree in civic and social education.