Dr. Rolando Fuentes is a nonresident scholar at the Center for the U.S. and Mexico and a research professor at EGADE Business School at Tec de Monterrey. In 2022, he received the Círculo de Profesores Destacados award from EGADE and Negocios TEC, recognizing him as one of the top 10% of faculty members.

His research interests include energy economics, energy policy, and innovative business models in the electricity sector. Before joining EGADE, Fuentes served as a senior economist at KAPSARC, an energy think tank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he focused on developing business and regulatory models for the Utilities of the Future. His research was featured in the cover story "A World Upside Down," published by The Economist on February 25, 2017. He also received the Best Paper Award at the 8th Conference on the Regulation of Network Industries in 2019, organized by the Florence School of Regulation.

Fuentes holds a PhD and MSc in environmental economics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and University College London (UCL). He was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship in 2001.