Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kansas City (MO) (USA). He was a full-time professor of the Department of Economics at the Universidad del Atlántico and associate professor at the Universidad del Norte. He has more than 50 years of experience in research, with participation in academic events, articles, books, book chapters and conferences. In 2022, he was appointed as an honorary member of the National Economic Science Academy of Colombia. In 2023, he received The James Street Scholar award from the Association for Evolutionary Economy of USA. His main lines of research are institutional economics and evolutionary economics.