Dr Alejandro Chávez-Segura is currently the research director at Instituto Karuna and a guest lecturer in International Political Theory, Eastern philosophies and Religion in International Relations at different universities in Mexico. He was awarded his PhD in Divinity by the University of St. Andrews and conducted his postdoctoral research at El Colegio de San Luis, A.C. He is the author of A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to International Relations (Edwin Mellen Press 2012).