Eduardo Garza-Aldape

January 9, 1956

He served as chief economic advisor to President Vicente Fox and as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón since December 1, 2006 to August 6, 2008. Sojo has worked as a full-time professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Campus León, at the National Institute of Geography, Statistics and Informatics (INEGI) and served as the economic policy coordinator of Vicente Fox while he was serving as governor of Guanajuato. When Vicente Fox was sworn as president on December 1, 2000, Sojo was appointed his Chief Economic Advisor until his resignation in 2006, when he joined Felipe Calderon"s transition team From 2008 to date. Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape serves as President of the Governing Board of INEGI, National Institute of Statistics and Geography. He is the co-chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management.

Eduardo Garza-Aldape

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economist

Education

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. University of Pennsylvania.

Career

He served as chief economic advisor to President Vicente Fox and as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón since December 1, 2006 to August 6, 2008. Sojo has worked as a full-time professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Campus León, at the National Institute of Geography, Statistics and Informatics (INEGI) and served as the economic policy coordinator of Vicente Fox while he was serving as governor of Guanajuato. When Vicente Fox was sworn as president on December 1, 2000, Sojo was appointed his Chief Economic Advisor until his resignation in 2006, when he joined Felipe Calderon"s transition team

From 2008 to date.

Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape serves as President of the Governing Board of INEGI, National Institute of Statistics and Geography. He is the co-chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management.

Achievements

Sojo graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education) with a bachelor"s degree in Economics and received both a master"s degree in Economics and a doctorate in Industrial Organization and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania, where he published several papers on econometrics and time-series with Lawrence Klein, the 1980 laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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