Carlos A. Pérez Ricart

Carlos A. Pérez Ricart is Assistant Professor in the Division of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México and a PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin, where he also taught and conducted postdoctoral research. From 2017 to 2020, he was a faculty member at the University of Oxford, teaching in the Faculty of History and at the Latin American Centre, based at St Antony’s College. His research and publications focus on arms trafficking, drug policy, and organized crime. Among his most notable works are Gun Trafficking and Violence (Palgrave, 2021), Cien años de espías y drogas (Debate, 2022), Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America (Routledge, 2022), and Entre el orden y el caos: Historia de la Policía de la Ciudad de México (Siglo XXI, 2025). He is a Level II member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI) and a weekly columnist for the newspaper Reforma. Between 2021 and 2024, he served on the Commission for Access to Truth and Historical Clarification (1965–1990), which he considers one of his proudest professional achievements.