Academic Career Professor at the Faculty of International, Political and Urban Studies, and former Director of the Observatory on Illicit Drugs and Weapons, at Universidad del Rosario. PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Master of Arts in International Security Studies from the University of Leicester. Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London.

Visiting Lecturer at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies, at the Joint War College of the Colombian Military Forces, and at the Schools of Intelligence of the Colombian Navy and the Army. Lecturer at the Colombian Diplomatic Academy ‘Augusto Ramirez Ocampo’-Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Former Commissioned Officer of the National Army, and Researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies in National Security and Defence (CEESEDEN) at the Colombian Joint College of War.