Alejandro Navarrete Torres

Head of the Radio Spectrum Unit, Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), Mexico

Since October 2014 Alejandro Navarrete Torres has been the Head of the Radioelectric Spectrum Unit of the Federal Institute of Telecommunications, the regulatory body for telecommunications and broadcasting in Mexico. He is directing the planning, administration and optimization of the radioelectric spectrum, including the bidding processes for it and the orbital resources associated with it. Before that, he served as Head of the Radio and Television Systems Unit of the same Institute, and also served as Deputy General Director of the Radio and Television Systems Unit in the former Federal Telecommunications Commission.

From 2004 to December 2012 he served as General Director of the Center for Research and Innovation in Telecommunications, A.C. (Cinit) of the National Chamber of the Cable Telecommunications Industry (Canitec), where he carried out strategic planning tasks in regulatory and technological matters associated with cable telecommunications networks.

​​Alejandro Navarrete was Coordinator of Advisors to the Undersecretary of Communications of the Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT) and Director of Television in that same Secretariat of State. For more than thirty years, he also has also been teaching in private universities in the country. He is the author and co-author of several textbooks in mathematics and technology and has served on academic, business, and regulatory advisory boards. He has participated as a speaker in different forums related to telecommunications and broadcasting in Mexico and abroad.