Rogelio Ramírez de la O
Rogelio Ramirez de la O | |
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Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit of Mexico | |
Assumed office August 3, 2021 | |
President | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
Preceded by | Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez |
Personal details | |
Born | Mexico City, Mexico | July 7, 1948
Political party | MORENA |
Education | National Autonomous University of Mexico (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
Occupation | Economist |
Rogelio Ramírez de la O is an economist based in Mexico City. He is designated as finance secretary of Mexico, replacing Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez.
Early life and education
Ramírez de la O received a bachelor's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an Economics PhD from Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
Career
Director and sole partner of Ecanal S.A., a private company which provides macroeconomic analysis and forecasts on Mexico to business, including some of the largest multinational companies with interests in Mexico. During 2006 he headed on an honorary basis the economic policy team of presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, backed by a coalition of parties including the PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution).
He has published works in Mexico, the United States and Europe on NAFTA, Mexico’s macroeconomic problems and the Mexican auto industry, among others. In the frame of the 2012 campaign for presidential elections, Andrés Manuel López Obrador included him as Finance Minister in his cabinet proposal, but the party did not win the elections.
Other activities
- World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Mexican economists
- National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
- Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
- 21st-century Mexican politicians
- Mexican Secretaries of Finance
- Morena (political party) politicians
- Cabinet of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
- People from Mexico City
- Politicians from Mexico City