Marlon Tábora Muñoz

Beginnings

Marlon Tábora Muñoz was born on April 3 of 1969 in the city of Santa Rosa de Copán, in the western department of Copan. He is the only son of the marriage formed by the gentleman Jose Ernesto Tábora and Lady Hilda Muñoz Tábora. His primary education was at the school Jose Maria Medina of Santa Rosa de Copán. Afterwards, he moved to the capital of the republic, Tegucigalpa; where he continued his studies and graduated from Instituto Salesiano San Miguel with a Bachelor of Science (Bachiller en Ciencias y Letras) in 1985.

Academy

He studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras where he obtained an Industrial Mechanical Engineer degree with academic excellence in 1989. He obtained a master's degree in International Businesses from the Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC) in 1994 and his doctorate in Sciences of the Administration in the Catholic University of Honduras (UNICAH) in 1999, both with honors summa cum laude. Later, he completed a master's in Administration of Public Politics in the McCourt School of Public Policy (MSPP) of the University of Georgetown (before GPPI) and postgraduate studies of Public Administration in Kennedy School of Government and AMP of Harvard Business School.
Tábora is married to Saira Esmeralda Ponce and has two children, Marlon Andrés and Isabella.

Professional and political path

Tábora has worked roughly equally in the public sector and the private sector. In March 2002, Tábora was appointed by President Ricardo Maduro, as President of the National Commission of Telecommunications (CONATEL), where he led the reform and opening of the sector of telecommunications in Honduras. While at the head of CONATEL, Tábora chaired the Commission of Telecommunications of Centroamérica (COMTELCA) Between 2005 and 2006, Tábora worked as a consultant for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), where he managed the process leading to the adoption of a new Competition Law in Honduras. In November 2009, Tábora was elected as first acting deputy of the National Party in the Francisco Morazán Department, charge to the that requested licence to be able to incorporate as part of the executive branch. In January 2010, Tabora was nominated by President Porfirio Lobo as Minister Boss of Cabinet and Vice-Minister of the Presidency, charge that held until June of that year, date in which it's nominated to be representative of Honduras in front of the Inter-American Bank of Development (BID) where becomes Alternating Executive Director for Centroamérica and Belize. In December of the 2013, the recently elected President Juan Orlando Hernandez nominates him as President of the Central Bank of Honduras and Coordinator and Boss of the Economic Cabinet place that assumes on 27 January 2014. During his management at the head of the economic cabinet, Tábora led successfully the process of negotiation of the agreement trianual of Honduras with the FMI in 2014 and the improvement of qualification crediticia of the country in 2015. In December 2014, the magazine Strategy and Businesses nominated it like one of the 100 more influential characters of the region centroamericana, under the calificativo of “The Man of the Figures”. In February 2015 Tabora, assumed as President of the Monetary Council Centroamericano (CMCA).

In January 2016, Forbes magazine included him on the list of the 25 most influential figures in Central America.

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