Luis Carlos founded Integralia Consultores in 2009 and is currently the CEO. He is in charge of executing Integralia's vision to become a leading company in the market; spreading the brand and attracting new clients; recruiting high quality professional consultants; and leading projects. Previously he worked in government for almost 20 years: he was president of the Federal Electoral Institute in 2003-2007, coordinator of advisors to the Mexican ambassador to the United States in 1997-2000 and to the Secretary of Energy in 1997.
Along with his experience in the public sector, Ugalde has developed a career as a university professor, researcher and political analyst. He was a full-time researcher at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in 2001-2003 and a visiting professor and researcher at Harvard University. He has been a professor since the 1990s at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), at the Tecnológico de Monterrey and at the American University in Washington DC. He has published books on democracy and public finance, as well as dozens of academic and opinion articles in specialized magazines and newspapers in Mexico and abroad. He is an editorial writer for El Financiero newspaper. He is a contributor to El Financiero Bloomberg; on Radio Fórmula with Pepe Cárdenas, and on Milenio TV with Azucena Uresti, as well as a commentator on various radio and TV news programs.
Luis Carlos holds a degree in Economics from ITAM, a master's degree in Public Administration and a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in New York.