Emiliano Polo Anaya is a nonresident scholar at the Claudio X. González Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He earned his undergraduate degree in law from Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, where he focused on constitutional and international law. He also holds a master of laws in international and constitutional law from ITAM, a graduate diploma in strategic political analysis from CIDE, and a master’s degree in global affairs with a concentration in international security from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Professionally, Polo Anya has worked at the consultancy firm Control Risks in Mexico City, specializing in political risk analysis with a focus on Mexico and Latin America. He has also worked at the Wilson Center and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., where his research centers on Latin America and Mexico in areas such as constitutional reforms, militarization, public security, the judiciary, energy, and the rule of law. He is also an associate of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), where he serves on the editorial committee and oversees publications and research as part of the current Young Associates Board.

In addition to his policy work, Polo Anya writes a monthly column for Nexos on international affairs for a Mexican audience, and he contributes to outlets such as Foreign Policy, The Mexico Brief, Global Americans, and Quillette, where he explains political developments in Mexico to foreign audiences.