Miguel is the Coordinator of the Global Security Programme at Pembroke College, Handbook RA for the Minerva Global Security Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, and a co-lead of the FOUND project, which explores technologies for locating clandestine graves in Mexico.

Before joining the Oxford Global Security Programme, Miguel worked as a public policy consultant at CIDE Mexico, was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and a member of the Oxford People in Government Lab. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, a Master in Government and Public Affairs from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. He is a former President of the Oxford Mexican Society.

He has recently contributed to the book ‘Interpreting Nature to Locate Those We Are Missing’ (Interpretar la Naturaleza para Encontrar a Quienes nos Faltan), which presents the findings of FOUND on the application of biological, physical, and earth sciences in the detection of clandestine graves.