I帽igo Guevara
Guest Speaker
Professional Affiliation
Director of Strategic Services, Janes; Adjunct Professor Georgetown University
Expert Bio
I帽igo Guevara is Director at Janes Aerospace, Defense and Security. He is responsible for supporting the growth and expansion of the aerospace and defense consulting practice in the Americas. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
I帽igo is a subject matter expert in Latin American armed forces, focusing specifically on the Mexican military including arms trade trends, defense industry developments, and procurement policies. In addition to his work for IHS Jane's, he has been widely published and quoted in various mainstream media and academic journals and is repeatedly called on as speaker in U.S. and Mexican forums, including Houses of Representatives.
He is the author of Sharp Around the Edges: A comparative Analysis of transnational criminal networks on the Southern Borders of NAFTA and the EU (Scientific Vortex/Open Society 2014), Adapting, Transforming and Modernizing Under Fire: The Mexican Military 2006-2011 The Letort Papers, published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College (2011), and Latin American Fighters, a reference book of jet fighters in service with Latin American air arms (2009).
Before joining IHS, from 2010 to 2015, I帽igo was a Senior Analyst for Defense and Security at CENTRA Technology, a DC-based company serving a broad range of US and international clients with critical defense, intelligence, and security missions. I帽igo served as Director of Analysis in the Office of the National Security Council, Office of the President of Mexico, from 2008 to 2010, where he advised the Mexican government on infrastructure, technology, and equipment options available in the international market. Prior to this, since 2004 I帽igo served at state-level law enforcement agency as chief of statistical analysis in Queretaro
I帽igo is requested constantly to provide US government agencies in the defense academic and intelligence communities with sector specific expertise, including recent lectures at the US Air Force Air War College, US Navy Naval Post Graduate School and the Dwight Eisenhower School for national Security and Resource Strategy (formerly Industrial College of the Armed Forces), US State Department鈥檚 Foreign Service Institute and the National Defense University鈥檚 William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS-NDU).
I帽igo has a MA in international security from Georgetown University鈥檚 Security Studies Program; he is a graduate of the Strategy and Defense Policy course from CHDS-NDU in Washington DC, and a BA in international trade from the Tec de Monterrey.
Insight & Analysis by I帽igo Guevara
- Past event
- Security and Defense
Claudia Sheinbaum's Security Strategy: A Path Forward?

- Publication
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De una fuerza de combate en plena modernizaci贸n a gerentes del desarrollo nacional: Las fuerzas armadas de M茅xico bajo AMLO

- Publication
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From a Modernizing Fighting Force to National Development Stewards: Mexico鈥檚 Armed Forces under AMLO

- Article
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Tenth Annual US-Mexico Security Conference - Event Summary

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- Security and Defense
Tenth Annual U.S.-Mexico Security Conference Part 1

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Mexico's National Guard: When Police are Not Enough
- Past event
- Rule of Law
Eighth Annual US-Mexico Security Conference: Taking Stock of Mexico's Security Landscape One Year On

- Past event
- Security and Defense
Where Do We Go from Here?: Merida 2.0 and the Future of Mexico-U.S. Security Cooperation
