Alejandro Rodiles is Professor of International Law and Global Governance at ITAM School of Law, Mexico City. He is the author of Coalitions of the Willing and International Law - The Interplay between Formality and Informality (CUP 2018). His principal areas of research are global security law, the UN Security Council, Mexican foreign relations law, and the relation between law and governance at different scales, including infrastructures' ordering potentials, and the normative force of resilience. He was the Legal Adviser of Mexico's Mission to the UN, in New York, during Mexico's non-permanent membership of the Security Council 2009-2010. There, he worked on sanctions, counterterrorism, and participated in the negotiations on Resolution 1904 (2009), which created the Office of the Ombudsperson.