José Ángel Gurría
José Ángel Gurría | |
|---|---|
 Angel Gurria at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 | |
| 5th Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | |
| Assumed office June 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Don Johnston[1] |
| Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico | |
| In office 1 January 1998 – 30 November 2000 | |
| Preceded by | Guillermo Ortiz Martínez |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Gil Díaz |
| Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico | |
| In office 1 December 1994 – 31 December 1997[2] | |
| Preceded by | Manuel Tello Macías |
| Succeeded by | Rosario Green |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 May 1950 Tampico, Mexico[1] |
| Political party | Revolutionary Institutional Party |
| Residence(s) | Paris, France |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Profession | Economist |
José Ángel Gurría Treviño (born 8 May 1950), also known as Ángel Gurría,[3] is a Mexican economist and diplomat. He is the current secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1 June 2006.
Gurría graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom and at Harvard University, in the United States. He served as the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1994–1997) and as Secretary of Finance (1998–2000) in the Ernesto Zedillo administration. In Foreign Affairs he opposed the Helms-Burton Act and while serving in Treasury, he restructured the foreign debt. He also negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and requested financial aid during the 1994 crisis.
Gurría has also been President and CEO of the National Development Bank of Mexico (Nafin) and President and CEO of the Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext). From 2003 to 2005 he was a chair member of the Inter-American Development Bank's External Advisory Group.
He was the architect of the Mexican economic stabilization, partially by cutting government spending six times during the Zedillo administration. The effect of his work has been felt during Vicente Fox's administration who nominated him to lead the OECD in July 2005.
He has also served, since 2010, as a Commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development which leverages broadband technologies as a key enabler for social and economic development.[4]
Gurría speaks six languages: Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Italian and German.[5]
On September 30, 2010, he was reappointed by the OECD to a second five-year mandate after his first term finished on June 1, 2011.[6] Since 2014, Gurría has served as a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance. [7]
Honours
: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau, 2015. (
Netherlands)[8]
External links
References
- ^ a b "Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD". OECD. Retrieved 9 July 2008. Cite error: The named reference "oecd" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Los Cancilleres de México a través de su Historia" (in Spanish). Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Retrieved 2 December 2008.
- ^ "Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD". Oecd.org. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ [1] Archived 14 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Artega, José Manuel (21 July 2005). "Gurría se perfila rumbo a la OCDE" (in Spanish). El Universal. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
- ^ "OECD countries renew Angel Gurría's mandate as Secretary-General". OECD Media Division. 30 September 2010. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ http://www.cigionline.org/articles/2014/03/angel-gurr%C3%ADa-oecd-secretary-general-joins-global-commission-internet-governance
- ^ https://twitter.com/noevanhulst/status/573105298317152256
- 1950 births
- Living people
- People from Tampico, Tamaulipas
- Politicians from Tamaulipas
- Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
- Mexican economists
- Mexican Secretaries of Foreign Affairs
- Mexican Secretaries of Finance
- Harvard University alumni
- National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development officials
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau