Marlon Tábora Muñoz (born 3 April 1969, in

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) is a Honduran

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and diplomat, a PhD in

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, and a member of the

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. Previously Tábora has been Honduras Ambassador to the United States and also worked as Executive Director for Central América and Belize at the

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and Counselor Minister of Economic and Energy Affairs of the President

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Biography

Personal life

Marlon Tábora Muñoz was born on April 3 of 1969 in the city of

, 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. Afterward, 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.
Tábora is married to Saira Esmeralda Ponce and has two children, Marlon Andrés and Isabella.

Academics

He studied at the

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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 The Central American Technological University ( es, Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana) (UNITEC) is a private coeducational institution with campuses in the three main cities of Honduras: Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba. Histor ...

(UNITEC) in 1994 and his doctorate in the Sciences of Administration at 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

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(MSPP) of

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(before GPPI) and postgraduate studies of Public Administration in

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and AMP of Harvard Business School.

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

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, as President of the National Commission of Telecommunications (CONATEL), where he led the reform and opening of telecommunications sector in Honduras. While at the head of CONATEL, Tábora chaired the Commission of Telecommunications of Central América (COMTELCA) Between 2005 and 2006, Tábora worked as a consultant for the

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(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

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, where he requested a license to be able to incorporate as part of the

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. Tabora was nominated in January 2010 by President

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as Minister Chief of Staff 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 he becomes Alternate Executive Director for Central America and Belize. In December 2013, the recently elected President

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nominates him as President of the

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and Chief of the Economic Cabinet charge that assumes on 27 January 2014. During his management at the head of the economic cabinet, Tábora led successfully the process of negotiation of a three years agreement of Honduras with the IFM in 2014 and the improvement of the country's

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in 2015. In December 2014, the magazine Strategy and Businesses nominated it like one of the 100 more influential characters of the Central American region, under the nickname “The Man of the Figures”. In February 2015 Tabora assumed as President of the Monetary Council Centroamericano (CMCA). In January 2016, ''

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'' magazine included him on the list of the 25 most influential figures in Central America.

Publications

* Competencia y regulación de las Telecomunicaciones en el caso de Hondura

* Condiciones generales de competencia en Hondura

* Competencia y regulación en la banca: el caso de Hondura

References