Rubén Marshall Tikalova

In 2010 he was invited to join the Board of Directors of the Federation of Alliances Françaises in Mexico, and in 2011 he founded with the French Ambassador in Mexico and Marie-Jo Paz, widow of Octavio Paz, the Circle Victor Hugo for the Arts in Mexico, to promote cultural exchange between France and Mexico and the Francophonie, and serves as its president. In 2014 Mexico became observer country of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). In his role as advisor, he currently serves as the Director of Brokerage and International Advisor from the United States Foreign Trade Institute.

As editorial director of FAHRENHEIT°, he made the transit of the publication to its digital version, launching in 2009 its website in French, English and Spanish, and with the time it became available in other languages. FAHRENHEIT° is also a channel of contemporary arts and lifestyle news, which has begun to venture into the field of international news.

He sculpted several pieces in which mannequins were the work of art, presenting in 2005 a selection of his work in the solo exhibition entitled Between the spiritual and the mundane in Praxis Gallery, Mexico City (since 2008 Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery), receiving diverse reviews for his use of familiar objects to express his search of volume in sculpture.

In October 2003 he founded, together with colleagues from the Mexican artistic and cultural world, the contemporary arts and lifestyle magazine FAHRENHEITº, being its editorial director since then. This publication has been studied and presented as part of the Mexican magazines of art and culture of the first two decades of the Twenty First Century. For several years he was also head of the column "Chess. Bishop and Aleph" which appeared in the bimonthly printed magazine.

Sir Ruben Jose Marshall Tikalova KM (born 1969, in Mexico City), since 2022 is Director of Brokerage and International Advisor of the United States Foreign Trade Institute. He was founder of the contemporary arts and lifestyle magazine FAHRENHEITº, and was its editorial director from 2003 to 2017.

From 2013 to 2016 he was also the editorial director of the weekly cultural section “FAHRENHEITº”, published in the national newspaper Excélsior. During its history (d. March 18, 1917), Excélsior has given voice to various characters of the Mexican cultural environment. The publications arising from its pages (supplements, sections and magazines), among which is Plural, the literary magazine run by the Mexican writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Octavio Paz, from its origin (October, 1971) to the “Excelsior beat” when he left the direction of the magazine (July, 1976), founding then the magazine Vuelta, although Plural was published until December 1994.