Fernando Clariond

Background

Fernando Canales is the son of Fernando Canales Salinas and Consuelo Clariond. Consuelo is the daughter of Jacques Antoine Clariond ("Santiago Antonio Clariond), founder of Industrias Monterrey, and his wife María Garza.

Career

He also served as Secretary of Economy and as Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of Vicente Fox. IMSA is nowadays one of the leading business groups in Latin America. During his youth he briefly considered the Catholic priesthood but finally opted-in for a bachelor"s degree in law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho.

Later on he received an Master of Business Administration from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education) and specialized in industrial relations at the Institute of Social Studies of The Hague, in the Netherlands.

As a governor, Canales delivered mixed results. He left the post after being invited to the federal cabinet by President Vicente Fox and was appointed Secretary of Economy on January 15, 2003.

Achievements

• Twelve years later he reattempted it and won, becoming the first governor of the Personal Area Networks in the history of the state.

Politics

Politically, he is a member of the right-of-center National Action Party since 1978. He became its 1985 nominee for the Nuevo León governorship but lost against Jorge Treviño of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (Institutional Revolutionary Party).

Membership

In the private sector Canales has served as chief executive officer and vice president of IMSA and as a member of the board in several companies in the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and Mexico.

Connections

opponent:

Natividad González Parás