Fausto is Senior Advisor at Miranda Partners and founder of Delphi Solutions and Strategic Services, a consultancy and scientific research firm based in Mexico City, concentrating on political risk and security dynamics in Latin America. He holds a BA in International Relations from Universidad Iberoamericana, and a Master’s degree in War Studies from King’s College London. He completed the Strategy and Defense Policy course at the William J. Perry Centre for Hemispheric Defense Studies, and the Terrorism and Counterterrorism course at Leiden University. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in National Security at the Mexican Institute of Strategic Studies in National Security and Defense (IMEESDN). He has previous experience in the Mexican government, particularly for the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. Among other affiliations, he is senior fellow at the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), the Mackinder Forum, and the European Consortium for Political Research – Standing Group on Organized Crime (ECPR-SGOC). His research on geopolitics, the crime-conflict compound, the conflict-security-development nexus, and the impact of the US-China strategic competition over the Western Hemisphere’s security trends have appeared in policy papers, policy briefs, academic publications and newspapers. He developed the “micro-geopolitics of organized crime” analytical framework.