Dr. Emilio José Baños Ardavín was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León. He studied Chemical Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM.

In 1995 he joined Procter & Gamble, where he worked for nearly 10 years in the areas of Product Development and Marketing. During this time he studied a Master's Degree in Administration at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM.

Since 2004 Dr. Emilio Baños and his family have been living in Puebla, due to his incorporation to the company Novaceramic, where he held different responsibilities, becoming General Director until 2011. Since that year he has been dedicated to developing real estate projects.

At the beginning of 2012 he was invited to join the Board of Governors of UPAEP, and in November of that same year he left the Board to assume the position of General Director of Human Development and Administration at the University.

Later, in April 2013, the Board of Governors appointed him Rector of UPAEP for the three-year term from August 2013 to July 2016. He has been ratified in the same position on three more occasions.