Gustavo Enrique Madero Muñoz (born 16 December 1955) is a Mexican politician, policy entrepreneur, businessman, and great-nephew of the president Francisco I. Madero. He is currently serving as a

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since 2018, having previously been a senator between 2006 and 2010. He was recognized by Forbes as a top leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mexico for transforming AI policy. Madero also was the President of the National Action Party (PAN) from 2010 to 2013 and again from 2014 to 2015,SIL: Profile of Gustavo Madero Muñoz
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Life

Gustavo Madero has a bachelor's degree in communication sciences from the

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente ''ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara'' — distinct from the University of Guadalajara — also known as ''Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, ITESO'' (Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education), is a ...

(ITESO) in 1978 and taught at the Women's University of Guadalajara between 1976 and 1977. He has pursued business interests for most of his life; from 1993 to 1994, he was the Vice President of the COPARMEX in Chihuahua, and he has consulted for hotels and worked for companies including Banamex and ING. He also served in aseveral public service positions, as a department head in the Directorate General of Adult Education of the SEP (1979–82) and as a coordinator of farmer training at the National Agricultural Training Institute between 1982 and 1986. In 1996, Madero joined the PAN, and the next year he served as the Director General of Planning and Evaluation in Chihuahua under

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Francisco Barrio. In 2001, he became more actively involved in politics when he stood (unsuccessfully) as the PAN's candidate for municipal president of Chihuahua. In 2003, voters in the Sixth Federal Electoral District of Chihuahua sent Madero to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time, in the LIX Legislature, after narrowly beating his opponent, Pedro Domínguez Alarcón of the PRI, by 48,683 votes to 48,229. He presided over the Finances and Public Credit Commission, where he worked hard to have

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applied to medicines and foodstuffs, an (unsuccessful) policy initiative of the

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administration.

First Senate term

In the 2006 federal election, Gustavo Madero was elected to the

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, representing Chihuahua for the PAN in conjunction with Ramón Galindo Noriega for the period 2006–12. He chaired the Finances and Public Credit Commission, and also served on the Trade and Industrial Development, Energy, Energy, and Foreign Relations (Asia-Pacific) Commissions. Until 10 June 2008, he was the leader of the PAN delegation in the Senate. On 9 June 2008, it was announced that Gustavo Madero would be replacing Santiago Creel (his cousin) as the coordinator of the PAN bloc in the Senate, and this was confirmed on 10 June by PAN President Germán Martínez at a meeting of the party's National Executive Committee. On 28 August 2008, he was elected

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for the third year (2008–09) of the LX Legislature.

Party president and federal deputy

In 2010, the PAN elected Madero as its new president, prompting him to permanently leave the Senate. He remained in the position until 2013, when he became the president of the Guiding Council of the Pacto por México; the next year, when the Pacto fell apart, he became the president again between 2014 and 2015 and was replaced by Ricardo Anaya. In 2015, the PAN placed Madero on their list from the first electoral region, returning him to the Chamber of Deputies. In the LXIII Legislature, he is the president of the Commission for Attention to Vulnerable Groups and also serves on those dealing with Social Development, Public Education and Educational Services, and the Committee for the Center for the Study of Public Finances.

Return to the Senate

In 2018, Madero and Rocío Reza ran as the Por México al Frente Senate ticket for the state of Chihuahua. The ticket finished in second place, sending Madero back to the Senate as the first minority senator.

References

External links

Gustavo Madero on the Senate web siteGustavo Madero in ''Monitor Legislativo''Biography of Gustavo Madero by CIDOB
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