Dr. Francisco Javier Rojas is Assistant Professor of the Homeland Security Program at Rabdan Academy.
From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Rojas was Assistant Professor at the Center for Research and Teaching Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He served as Senior Advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Executive Office of the President of Mexico and to the Secretary of Public Education from 2013 to 2016. Previously, he was Director of Risk Analysis at Mexico’s Ministry of the Interior. Dr. Rojas specializes in the analysis of intelligence agencies as political institutions in an international comparative perspective and research methods for intelligence analysis.
His teaching experience includes graduate and undergraduate courses in Intelligence Agencies in International Comparative Perspective, Advanced Analytical Techniques, Introduction to Intelligence Analysis, and Fundamentals of Intelligence. His publications comprise peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books published in Convergencia Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania, Norrag, among other journals.
Dr. Rojas belongs to the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum and is a Salzburg Global Seminar fellow and a member of the National Council of Science and Technology. He was a Fulbright scholar and Associate Coordinator of the Mexican Center of the Lozano Long Latin American Studies Institute at the University of Austin, as well as recipient of diverse grants from the Ford and the William and Flora Hewlett foundations, among others.
He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. degree in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in Political Science from CIDE (summa cum laude).
• Ph.D. in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin
• M.A. in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin
• B.A. in Political Science from CIDE
• Intelligence Theories
• Intelligence Analysis and Methodologies
• Intelligence Agencies in International Comparative Perspective
• Intelligence Agencies in International Comparative Perspective
• History of Intelligence
• Intelligence Methods
Articles
• Rojas, Javier and Aldo F. Ponce. 2021. “Lento or Presto? Subnational Government Capacities and the Pace of the Implementation of Contentious Policies.” Education Policy Analysis and Archives, vol. 29, no. 107, pp. 1-22.
• Rojas, Javier. 2019. “Constructive or Coercive: The Impact of Global Reports on Educational Policy”, NORRAG. Geneva, Switzerland: Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training.
• Rojas, Javier. 2018. “The Education Reform at the Subnational Level: Harmony and Dissonance.” Convergencia Revista de Ciencias Sociales, no. 78, pp. 43-70.
• Roberts, Bryan and Javier Rojas. 2006. “Global Vulnerability and Social Policy: An Agenda for Discussion”, Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania, vol. 11, no. 49, pp. 23/37.
Books
• Heredia, Blanca and Javier Rojas. Tiempos de Cambio: Transparencia y Educacion de Calidad. Mexico City: CIDE and INAI.
• Hernandez, Jimena and Javier Rojas (eds.). 2018. English Public Policies in Latin America: Looking for Innovation and Systemic Improvement in Quality English Language Teaching. Mexico City: CIDE and British Council.
Book Chapters
• Rojas, Javier and Jimena Hernandez. 2018. “The Importance of English as a Second Language in Latin America”, in Jimena Hernandez and Javier Rojas (eds.), English Public Policies in Latin America: Looking for Innovation and Systemic Improvement in Quality English Language Teaching. Mexico City: CIDE and British Council. Pp. 10-29.
• Hernandez, Jimena and Javier Rojas. 2018. “Working Towards Public Policies for English as a Second Language in the Latin American Region”, in Jimena Hernandez and Javier Rojas (eds.), English Public Policies in Latin America: Looking for Innovation and Systemic Improvement in Quality English Language Teaching. Mexico City: CIDE and British Council. Pp. 148-161.
