JESúS SILVA HERZOG FLORES

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'Jesús Silva Herzog Flores' (b. in May 8, 1935 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as secretary of finance and public credit in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid (19821986) and as an ambassador to Spain and the United States during the 1990s.
Silva Herzog is son of the prominent Mexican economist Jesús Silva Herzog and Josefina Flores Villarreal. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master's degree in the same discipline from Yale University.
He taught several courses in economics at the UNAM (19631969) and at ''El Colegio de México'' (19641969) before joining the Bank of Mexico as general manager (19771978) and serving as undersecretary of finance in the cabinet of José López Portillo (19791982).
In 2000 he lost Mexico City's Head of Government election against Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Silva Herzog was married to María Teresa Márquez Diez-Canedo and is the father of Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez, Eugenia Silva Herzog Marquez and Maria Teresa Silva Herzog Marquez.
'Source:' ''Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano'', Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.

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