Miguel Mancera Aguayo (born December 18, 1932) is a

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economist. He served as general director of the

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from 1982 until 1998.''Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano'', Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992. Mancera Aguayo was born in

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, and is the son of Rafael Mancera Ortiz and María Luisa Aguayo Cendejas. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the

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(ITAM) and a master's degree in economics from

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. Before joining the public sector, Mancera worked at the Bank of Commerce (nowadays ''BBVA Bancomer'', 1953 – 1955) and taught several courses at the ''

Escuela Libre de Derecho Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD) is a law school in Mexico City founded in 1912. Since its establishment in 1912, the Escuela has had as its only mission the teaching of law, breeding from the principles of academic freedom, outside of any form of ...

'' (1956 – 1957). He was also a member of the faculty of the ITAM (1958 – 1965) and the Latin American Center of Monetary Studies (CEMLA, 1962 – 1964). He joined the Mexican central bank (Banxico) in 1957 and 25 years later was appointed general director by President

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 ...

. During the 1980s, he faced one of the toughest economic crises in the history of Mexico and in the early 1990s he launched a new national currency, the Mexican ''Nuevo Peso''. Mancera is married to Sonia Corcuera Corcuera. He received the Order of Rio Branco (

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, 1983) and he is an officer of the

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'' (1990).

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1932 births Living people Mexican economists Heads of Bank of Mexico Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México alumni Yale University alumni People from Mexico City Academic staff of Escuela Libre de Derecho {{Mexico-economist-stub