Jesús Carrillo

Academic Year: 
2020-21
Direction: 
To Yale
Exchange Partners: 
el Colegio de Mexico
Project Title: 
Mexican Petroleum Sector Institutional Analysis: A New Institutional Economics Approach

Jesús Carrillo is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at El Colegio de México. He holds a Master in Economics degree from El Colegio de México (2015) and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua (2005). His research interests include Energy Economics, Industrial Organization, Institutional Economics and History of Economic Thought. His Ph.D. dissertation is a study of the Mexico’s 2013 energy reform from both an Institutional Economics and an Industrial Organization perspectives. He is currently a guest researcher at the Energy Program of El Colegio de México and has taught Microeconomics and Macroeconomics courses to undergraduate students as a visiting professor at the Centre for International Studies in El Colegio de México. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he served as Deputy Director General of Statistics and Economic Assessment at National Hydrocarbons Commission, the regulatory agency of the Mexican government for oil and gas exploration and production activities.