Background
Bustamante Vasconcelos, Eduardo was born on October 12, 1904 in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. Early protégé of Aaron Sáenz and Manuel Gómez Morin. Father a self-made businessman.
Relative of Juan I. Vasconcelos, federal deputy from Oaxaca, 1964-1967. Brother of Miguel E. Bustamante, Subsecretary of Health, 1960-1964.
Education
Primary studies at the Colegio Unión, Oaxaca, 1910-1915. Preparatory at the Colegio Unión and the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Oaxaca, 1917-1922. Law degree, National School of Law, National Autonomous University, October 6, 1926.
Professor of Public Finance at the National School of Economics, National Autonomous University, 1947-1960.
Career
Technical consultant to the Technical Fiscal Department of the Secretariat of the Treasury, 1928, and head of that department in 1932. Financial adviser to the State of Nuevo León, 1927-1931. Director General of Revenues of the Secretariat of the Treasury, 1934.
Director General of the Bank of Industry and Commerce, 1942-1945. Private secretary to the Secretary of Public Education, Puig Casauranc, 1930-1931. Private secretary to the Secretary of Industry and Commerce, Aaron Sáenz, 1931.
Subsecretary of the Treasury, 1946-1949. Mexican delegate to the United Nations with Adolfo López Mateos, 1951. Secretary of Government Properties, 1958-1964.
Private law practice, 1934-1946. Lawyer for International Harvester. Member of the Advisory Council of the Bank of Commerce and the Bank of Industry and Commerce, 1965-1970.
Member of the board of the Bank of Commerce, 1974. Member of the board of La Moderna, 1982. Bustamante, Subsecretary of Health, 1960-1964.
Married Refugio Dávila.