President Enrique Pena Nieto Preceded by Rosario Robles President Felipe Calderon | President Enrique Pena Nieto Name Jose Meade Preceded by Patricia Espinosa | |
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José Antonio Meade Kuribreña is a Mexican politician, economist, lawyer and diplomat and current Mexican Secretary of Finance.
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Biography
The Secretary is the son of Dionisio Meade y Garcia de Leon and his wife, daughter of the lawyer and sculptor José Kuri Breña. The Meade Kuribreña family is a Mexican family of Irish and Lebanese descent. Meade served as Secretary of Energy (7 January to 9 September 2011), then as Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón (9 September 2011 to 30 November 2012).
On December 1, 2012, Meade was named the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto. In August 2015, he became the Secretary for Social Development.
In February 2016, the League of United Latin American Citizens Council No. 12 in Laredo, Texas, announced that Meade and George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner, would both receive the titles of "Señor Internacional," a designation used since 1976 to honor distinguished figures in the border region as part of the annual Washington's Birthday Celebration.
