Bachelor of Business Administration, at UNAM, Mexico. Master’s Degree in public administration and Economics; Ph.D in Public Administration, University of Southern California. Did a postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University, School of Agricultural Economics. He has a Diploma in Policy Science, Technology and Innovation at Harvard University, United States. Received a grant from the Ford
Foundation to conduct his doctoral dissertation.

He has over 35 years of professional and teaching experience at the graduate level. He has been professor at ITAM, ITESM, COLPOS, Autonomous University of Chapingo and visiting professor at the University of Technology in the Netherlands and the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands and at the National University of Liberia and Cuttington University in Liberia, West Africa. He has been a columnist at the some of the most important newspapers in Mexico, including “el Financiero”, “ Uno mas Uno”, and “Milenio”.

Internationally, he was Assistant Director General at the International Centre for Public Enterprises (1982-1988) based in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. In the federal public sector, was Federal Representative at The Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development, and the of Ministry of Economy (2000-2004) and later Director of the Mexico State Council for Science and Technology, in the state of Mexico. In the last 5 years has been senior adviser to the Government of Liberia for the World Bank and United Nations, and consultant for the International Development Agency of Germany, GIZ and the International Development Agency United States, USAID. In 2013, he founded his own consulting firm, International Development Consulting (IDC).

For 15 generations he has been Director and Professor of the Diploma Program in Business Process Reengineering a postgraduate program for Business offered by the University of Americas, AC

Ricardo Acosta has a long career as a senior executive in high levels of decision making at the national and international levels. He also has a broad experience as consultant to international organizations as well as national levels in Government, corporate business and academia at the graduate level .