Mario Luis Fuentes Alcalá (born 18 January 1956) is a Mexican politician and economist who served as Director-General of the

Mexican Social Security Institute The Mexican Institute of Social Security ( es, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS) is a governmental organization that assists public health, pensions and social security in Mexico operating under the Secretariat of Health. It also forms ...

in 2000. He was educated at 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 ...

The Hague University of Applied Sciences The Hague University of Applied Sciences ( nl, De Haagse Hogeschool), abbreviated THUAS, is a university of applied sciences with its campuses located in and around The Hague in the Randstad metropolitan region in the west of the Netherlands. Th ...

and the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

(PhD). He was affiliated with the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

, and played a role in coordinating Luis Donaldo Colossio's 1994 presidential campaign. After 2000, he launche
Mexico Social
a magazine focused on Mexico's wealth inequality, whilst no longer keeping his ties to the party.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuentes, Mario Luis 1956 births Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia Mexican economists Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Mexican civil servants The Hague University of Applied Sciences alumni