Adolfo Cuevas Teja was born in Mexico City (1964). He has a bachelor degree in Law from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where he also obtained a specialty in Constitutional and Administrative Law and obtained a Master in Law. He holds a Master in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.

He joined the public service in 1985. He worked in the office of the UNAM’s General Attorney. He was Counsel of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) between 1998 and 2002.

In the telecommunications sector, he worked at the Mexican Radio Institute as Legal Assistant Director. He was the Counsel in the General Directorate of Radio, Television and Cinematography of the Ministry of Government. He was also an advisor on this matter in the Senate of the Republic. He joined the Federal Communications Commission in 2006, where he held the positions of Area Director and General Director of Resolutions and Agreements Projects “D”. On September 10, 2013, he was ratified by the Mexican Senate as Commissioner of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) up to 2022.

His public agenda, interviews and other documents are available in Spanish on this link.