Enrique Octavio de la Madrid Cordero (Mexico City, born 1 October 1962) is a lawyer, a public official, a columnist and

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politician. He is a member of the

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Biography

He is the son of

Paloma Cordero Paloma Delia Margarita Cordero Tapia, known as Paloma Cordero, (February 21, 1937 – May 11, 2020) was the First Lady of Mexico from 1982 to 1988 during the presidency of her husband, Miguel de la Madrid. Cordero also headed the National System ...

, former

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, and

Miguel de la Madrid Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (; 12 December 1934 – 1 April 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988. Inheriting a severe economic an ...

, former Mexican President (1982-1988). He was a federal congressman as a member of the PRI. Enrique de la Madrid has a

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degree from the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) and has a Master's in

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from the

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. He was a professor at ITAM ( Autonomous Technical Institute of México) from 1996-1998.

Public official

Among the public offices he has held are the general technical coordinator of the Presidency of the National Bank and Securities Commission (CNBV) from 1994-1996. He earned a seat as a federal congressman in 2000, serving in the Chamber of Deputies until 2003 whereupon he left office to run for the position of borough chief for the Alvaro Obregón precinct of Mexico City (he lost to the PRD candidate). In 2006, President

Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 a ...

named him general director of Financiera Rural (a rural development bank) and he served there until July 31, 2010. On December 6, 2012, Enrique de la Madrid was named CEO of the National Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext) by President

Enrique Peña Nieto Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...

. On August 27, 2015, De la Madrid took over as Tourism Secretary.

Private sector

In the business sector, De la Madrid was executive president of the Mexican Council for the Consumer Industry ( ConMéxico) and served as director of the Institutional Relations and Corporate Communications office for Mexico and Latin America at the HSBC bank.

Media

He recently published his first book, titled “México en la generación del desarrollo” ("Mexico in the generation of development"). It was published by

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. In the book, De la Madrid analyzes Mexico's achievements and its comparative advantages and proposes that the nation can achieve full development this generation. He has also been a newspaper columnist at both

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and

Milenio ''Milenio'' is a major national newspaper in Mexico, owned by Grupo Multimedios. It is published in 11 cities across Mexico, including Monterrey, Mexico City, Guadalajara, León, Pachuca, Puebla, Villahermosa, Tampico, Torreón, Toluca, and Xal ...

, as well as for several newspapers owned by the Organización Editorial Mexicana. He is currently a columnist with El Universal and takes part as a commentator in Leonardo Curzio's program "Primera Emisión de Enfoque".

External links

Mexico - Presidency of the Republic Website

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