Juan José Suárez Coppel is a Mexican economist. He was a director-general of

PEMEX Pemex (a portmanteau of Petróleos Mexicanos, which translates to ''Mexican Petroleum'' in English; ) is the Mexican state-owned petroleum company managed and operated by the Mexican government. It was formed in 1938 by nationalization and expr ...

, the state-owned government-granted monopoly in Mexico's petroleum industry. He is of Spanish ancestry.

History

Coppel is a graduate of the

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology), commonly known as ITAM, is a private university. It is one of Mexico's most important institutions of higher learning; highly prestigious in the social sc ...

in Mexico City, and earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He has taught economics at several leading universities in Mexico, Europe and at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

the United States.

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