Gabriel Cavazos Villanueva

Gabriel Cavazos Villanueva is a senior advisor to Monarch splitting his time between Mexico City and Monterrey. He has extensive experience in the public sector and academia, as well as in international arbitration. His background includes government service, government relations, and international trade and investment arbitration.

Dr. Cavazos has worked in all three branches of the Mexican government and in the Legislative Power of Mexico. He has been an advisor with the Mexican Senate and has had several roles with the State of Nuevo León including head legal counsel at the Secretariat of Economic Development.

In academia, Dr. Cavazos worked with the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) from 1997 to 2018 where he was a professor and dean. He was the Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Humanities of the School of Business, Social Sciences and Humanities, in charge of the undergraduate academic Departments of Law, Philosophy and Ethics, International Relations and Political Science, Communication and Journalism, Humanities, and Modern Languages (2014-2016). From March 2017 to May 2018, he acted as Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Government for the Northern Region.

Dr. Cavazos is a legal counsel in international law and foreign investment and has published numerous pieces related to the Mexican experience on topics in these areas. He has been retained as an expert witness in cases dealing with international and Mexican law in civil and criminal trials in the United States. Dr. Cavazos was appointed by the governments of Mexico and the United States as a panelist in NAFTA Chapter 19 dispute settlement arbitration for anti-dumping and countervailing duty matters, in which he has ruled on different controversies between Canada and the U.S. and Mexico and the U.S. He has participated, with a group of Mexican jurists, as amicus curiae in a case before the United States Supreme Court. Dr. Cavazos is also the legal counsel for the Council for the Development of the Software Industry in the State of Nuevo León. Finally, he has participated as an arbitrator in the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot (FDI Moot) competitions in Boston (2012), Frankfurt (2013), Los Angeles (2014), London (2015), and Buenos Aires (2016).