BIOGRAPHY
Ernesto Canales Santos undertook his Law studies at La Escuela de Libre Derecho (Suma Cum Laude) in Mexico City and continued his graduate studies at Columbia University (Master of Comparative Law), Stanford University, University of Texas and Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Business Administration). He has had extensive professional practice as corporate lawyer and as an arbitrator in international disputes. He is founding partner of Canales and Partners Lawyers Office, SC. He serves on the Boards of Directors of Xignux, SA Ltd., AXA Seguros, SA de CV, Banco Nacional de Mexico, SA (Northern Region Advisory Council), International Investment, SA de CV, Entrepreneurs Delta Real Estate, Inc. de CV, Terralta Dos, SA de C.V. Housing and Holbox. He is currently the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Thailand in Monterrey, Founder and Coordinator of Renace Institution and of the National Network of Civil Organizations in Support of Oral Trials and Due Process; Member of the Boards of Mexican Social Reintegration Reintegra Foundation, of the Faculty of Law at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, of Luis Barragán Foundation, of Fundación Juan Soriano, of Marek Keller, and of the Mexican Institute for Justice. He has received awards from the National Center for the Development of Philanthropy, Ashoka – Visionaris, National Association of Corporate Counsel, Mexican Bar Association, Eugenio Garza Sada 2012 – Category People, Luis Elizondo 2012 – Humanitarian category and SELIDER 2012 for Lifetime Service to the Community and Mexico Appleseed Foundation – Robert Herzstein Award for lifetime achievement in pro bono work in the community.
RENACE
Renace is an organization with two key elements to its strate-gy: judicial services for innocent defenders and advocacy for oral trials in the Mexican legal system. Ernesto believes that the majority of the failures of the criminal system are structural problems, instead of problems in the application of the laws. Therefore, he promotes the study and analysis of the failures of the current regimen among academic figures and law schools as a way to resolve the problems and thus create a better criminal justice system in the country.