Adolfo Arguello Vives serves as the finance chair of the board at the National Evaluation Academy and Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow at Leadership Exchange Asia Program. He is a certified evaluator by the Center of Project Preparation and Evaluation (CEPEP) and ITAM, and holds an Executive Certificate in Public Private Partnerships from the Kennedy School of Government.

From 2011 to 2014, he was Mexico´s Ambassador at the Young Leaders Foundation (Buenos Aires, Argentina). In 2016 he completed the Innovation and Leadership in Government (ILG) Program from the Latin American Board at Georgetown University. As President of the ILG Alumni Network (2018-2020), he is an Innovation in Government Mentor at the Global Competitiveness Leadership (GCL) Program, and the representative at the GCL Advisory Committee. In addition, he was selected as a 2020 Asia Peace Innovators Forum Fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar in partnership with The Nippon Foundation.

He was the Evaluation Officer of the consortium that designed the Infrastructure Plan for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the south of Mexico. In his work, Adolfo drew on considerable experience as a consultant for large infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on development effectiveness and fostering competitiveness. He served as the Chief Planning Officer at the Ministry of Tourism in Chiapas, Mexico.

Adolfo holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business from Tecnológico de Monterrey and a master’s degree in Public Policy from King’s College London where he was a Chevening Scholar.

His research at AGI seeked to draw lessons from Asian experience with SEZs, and in particular China’s state-owned enterprise model of SEZs.