Honorary Member
Social Sciences: Doctor of Criminal Policy
Date of admission: 16 April 2026
Admission lecture: “Vulnerabilidad criminológica estructural progresiva, análisis de la desvinculación escolar como factor de riesgo delictivo” (Progressive structural criminological vulnerability: analysis of school disengagement as a factor of criminal risk)
Responds: His Excellency Dr Alfredo Rocafort Nicolau, Doctor of Economic Sciences and Law
Distinguished career: Doctor of Criminal Policy, noted for her career in higher education and for promoting at the Universidad Humani Mundial programmes in criminology, legal psychology and humanistic education with a social outreach.
ROCÍO M. NAVEJA OLIVA, holds a degree in Economics from the University of Guadalajara, a Master’s degree in Human and Social Development, and a Doctorate in Criminal Policy. She also undertook Master’s studies in Marketing and a specialisation in International Business. She is accredited in the Tec Beyond Executive Innovation Program.
Founder and Rector of the Universidad Humani Mundial for the past 20 years, she has been a pioneer in Guanajuato in the implementation of programmes in Criminology, Logistics and Gerontology, as well as leading the first private institution in Mexico to offer the Master’s degree in Legal and Forensic Psychology and the Doctorate in Criminology.
She has 30 years of academic experience in various institutions across the country. She is President of the Guanajuato branch of SOMECRIM. She is a member of CIECRIM, the Ibero-American Network of Forensic Sciences and Criminology, REDPOLYSEG and INEJ. She has published with UNAM, REDPOLYSEG and CNDH, and has delivered national and international lectures in eight countries.
As a public official in municipalities of Jalisco, she has served as Presidential Adviser, Chief Administrative Officer and Head of Investments.
In the business sphere, she is Adviser to the Women’s Association, AMMJE, and the Employers’ Confederation COPARMEX. She is Founder of the State College of Economists of Guanajuato and Adviser to BANCREA Bank.
As a municipal and state social activist, over the past 15 years she has had a distinguished role as Adviser on Security in Guanajuato, at the Municipal Planning Institute of León (IMPLAN), within the Citizen Network of the State Anti-Corruption Committee, Alerta ÁMBER, and the Network of Adolescents in Conflict with the Law in Guanajuato. She is founding President of the Citizen Board for Security and Justice of León and President of the León Citizen Observatory. She collaborates with foundations dedicated to addiction care.
She participates in rehabilitation programmes in the Guanajuato and Federal prison systems. In community support, she created the Post-Prison House for released persons and implements comprehensive development programmes for adolescents in basic education schools aimed at preventing risk behaviours.
