Preceded by David Ibarra Munoz Name Jesus Herzog Role Economist | Parents Jesus Silva Herzog Preceded by Jorge Montano | |
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President Jose Lopez PortilloMiguel de la Madrid | ||
Preceded by Pedro Joaquin Coldwell | ||
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Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, born as Jesús Silva y Flores (8 May 1935 — 6 Mar 2017) was a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1986), as ambassador to Spain (1991–1994) and the United States (1995–1997), and as secretary of Tourism (1994) in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
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- Personal life
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Biography
Silva Herzog was born as Jesús Silva y Flores in Mexico City to economic historian Jesús Silva Herzog and Josefina Flores Villarreal. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, 1959) and a master's degree in the same discipline from Yale University (1962).
He taught several courses in Economics at UNAM (1963–1969) and El Colegio de México (1964–1969); worked as an economist for the Inter-American Development Bank (1962–1963) and as director-general of the National Institute of Housing (INFONAVIT, 1972–1976) before joining the Bank of Mexico as director-general (1977–1978) and serving as undersecretary of Finance in the cabinet of José López Portillo (1979–1982).
In 2000, he lost Mexico City's Head of Government election to Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Silva Herzog died on March 6, 2017, at the age of 81.
Personal life
He was married to María Teresa Márquez Diez-Canedo and is the father of three children: María Teresa, Eugenia and Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez.