Aide to Gonzalo Martínez Corbala
Salinas de Gortari, Carlos was born on April 3, 1948 in Federal District, Mexico. Son of Raúl Salinas Lozano, secretary of Industry and Commmerce, 1958-1964, and Margarita de Gortari Carvajal. Brother Raúl served as a division head in the secretariat of public works.
Early education unknown. Economics degree, National School of Economics, National Autonomous University, 1971, with an honorable mention. Master of Arts in public administration, Harvard University, 1973.
Master of Arts in political economy, Harvard University, 1976. Ph.D. in political economy and government, Harvard University, 1978. Research assistant, Harvard University, 1974.
Professor of Public Finance, Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, 1976. Professor of Fiscal Policy, Center for Monetary Studies of Latin America, 1978. Adjunct professor, National School of Economics, National Autonomous University, 1970-1972.
Professor, Institute for Political Education of Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Representative of the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party in diverse studies analyzing presidential state of the union addresses, 1973-1979. Subdirector of Economic Studies of the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1979. Secretary of the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1981-1982.
Aide to Gonzalo Martínez Corbala, 1966-1968. Adviser to the Subdirector of Public Finances, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1971-1974. Director, Department of Financial Studies and International Affairs, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1974-1976.
Subdirector of Economic Studies, Division of Economic and Treasury Studies, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1976. Technical Secretary, Internal Groups, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1976-1977. Director of Economic Studies, Division of Treasury Planning, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1976-1977.
Subdirector General of Treasury Planning, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1978. Director General of Treasury Planning, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1978-1979. Technical Secretary of the Economic Cabinet, 1979-1981.
Director General of Social and Economic Policy, Secretariat of Programming and Budget, 1979-1981. Secretary of Progamming and Budget, since 1982. Youngest member of the 1982 cabinet.
Candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party for the presidency, 1987.
Roman Catholic
Spouse Yolanda Cecilia Occelli González.
