Gabriel Cavazos Villanueva holds a law degree from Universidad Regiomontana (1988); a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada, 1997); a Master of Laws (LLM) from Tulane University (Louisiana, United States, 2001); and a Doctor (PhD) in International and Comparative Law from that same university (2008).

He has worked across all three levels of government in Mexico as well as in the Legislative Branch. Among other positions, he served as General Counsel of the Secretariat of Economic Development of the State of Nuevo León (2003–2006).

He was a professor and Dean at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and has served as a visiting professor at various institutions in the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

He is currently a member — among others — of the Club Español e Iberoamericano de Arbitraje; of the Advisory Council of the Center for US and Mexican Law at the University of Houston (Texas, United States); and of the Advisory Council of Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Nuevo León, Mexico). He serves as Vice President of the Arbitration Committee of the Nuevo León Chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC – Mexico). He is a professor of Arbitration, International Law, and Comparative Law at Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

In 2025, he completed and obtained the Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in Oxford, United Kingdom. In April 2026, he was formally admitted as a Fellow — the highest grade of membership of the CIArb.

He has been retained as an expert witness on matters of comparative law in litigation before state and federal courts in the United States. He has participated alongside other Mexican jurists as amicus curiae in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. He was also appointed on several occasions as a panelist/arbitrator to resolve commercial disputes under Chapter 19 of NAFTA in antidumping and countervailing duty matters.

He has published books, book chapters, and articles in specialized academic journals on topics of arbitration, international commercial law, and foreign investment, both in Mexico and abroad.

He currently practices as an independent attorney and arbitrator and is also a Senior Advisor at the consulting firm Monarch Global Strategies.