Fernando Torres de la Torre

Fernando Torres de la Torre was born in Las Bocas, Mezquitic, Jalisco, Mexico. He was homeschooled from first to fourth grade at his paternal grandfather’s school. He later attended Colegio Villa de Guadalupe in Zacatecas, earning his elementary certificate with summa cum laude honors. He finished high school at Colegio Cervantes Costa Rica, a Marist school in Guadalajara. Fernando was then admitted to the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG), Mexico’s oldest private university, where he earned degrees in Applied Linguistics for Foreign Language Teaching. He began his career teaching Spanish to American medical students at UAG. Later, Fernando studied as an exchange student at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, returned to his alma mater, and was appointed Assistant Head of the Language Department. He was later named Head of the Student Exchange Department. He was then invited to teach at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea, where he spent 7.5 years teaching in the Spanish Department and the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation. Since returning to Guadalajara, he has dedicated over three decades to UAG’s internationalization through roles in International Studies, study abroad, Translation, and Asian Studies. He currently leads UAG’s internationalization strategy.