Background
Zedillo, Ernesto was born on December 27, 1951, in Mexico City, Mexico. Son of Rodolfo Zedillo Castillo and Martha Alicia Ponce de Leon.
economics professor President of Mexico
Zedillo, Ernesto was born on December 27, 1951, in Mexico City, Mexico. Son of Rodolfo Zedillo Castillo and Martha Alicia Ponce de Leon.
Student, Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Student, Bradford University. Student, University Colorado.
Master of Arts, Yale University, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1981. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Yale University, 2001.
With Partido Revolucionario Institucional, since 1971, Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Económicos y Sociales. Economic researcher Dirreción General de Programación Económica y Social. Lecturer Colegio de Mexico, 1978-1980.
Deputy manager finance and economic research, advisor to board directors Banco de Mexico. Deputy secretary for planning and budget Government Mexico, Mexico City, 1985-1988, secretary for planning and budget, 1988-1992, secretary public education, 1992-1993. Campaign manager presidential nominee Luis Donald Colosio Partido Revolucionario Institucional, 1993-1994.
President Government Mexico, Mexico City, 1994—2000. Chair, high level panel financing for development United Nations. Professor international economics & politics Yale University, New Haven, since 2002, director Yale Center Study of Globalization, since 2002.
Co-chairman International Task Force on Global Public Goods, United Nations Commission on Private Sector and Development. Chair Global Development Network. Board directors Union Pacific Corporation, 2001—2006, The Proctor & Gamble Company, since 2001, Alcoa Inc., since 2002, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, 2007—2008, Citigroup Inc., since 2010, Peter G. Peterson Institute Internat Economics, International Crisis Group.
Distinguished visiting fellow Centre for Global Governance London School Economics & Political Science, 2001. Distinguished lecturer University Miami, 2001. Colins Family distinguished fellow John F. Kennedy School Government, Harvard University, 2002.
Married Nilda Patricia Velasco Nuñez. Children: Ernesto, Emiliano, Carlos, Nild Patricia, Rodrigo.