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, a Master’s degree in War Studies from King’s College London. He also completed the Strategy and Defence Policy course at the William J. Perry Centre for Hemispheric Defence Studies, and the Terrorism and Counterterrorism course at Leiden University. He is currently studying the Ph.D. in National Security at the Mexican Institute of Strategic Studies in National Security and Defence (IMEESDN).

He previously worked for the Mexican government, particularly for the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. He also served as non-resident fellow of the Mexican Navy Institute for Strategic Research (ININVESTAM). Among other affiliations, he is senior fellow at the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), senior research fellow at the Mexico Research Centre for Peace (CIPMEX) and expert member of the Urban Violence Research Network (UVRN), the Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research (SHOC-RUSI), the European Consortium for Political Research – Standing Group on Organised Crime (ECPR-SGOC), and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF).

He is also lecturer of the BA in Global Affairs at Universidad Anáhuac México. His research on geopolitics, 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.