Guillermo Prieto Fortún

Background

Prieto Fortún, Guillermo was born on June 10, 1935 in Federal District, Mexico. Son of Guillermo Prieto Pérez, businessman, and Maria Luisa Fortún Aguilar protégé of Hugo B. Margáin.

Education

Early education unknown. Economics degree, National School of Economics, National Autonomous University, 1953-1957, graduating in 1960 with an honorable mention and a thesis on the “Development of Bridges and Public Highways over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec”. Degree in business administration from the Pan American Institute for the Development of Higher Management.

Career

Joined Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1955. Economist, Income Tax Division, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1955. Subdirector of the Department of Technical Calculations, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1955-1960.

Adviser to Hugo B. Margáin, Oficial Mayor of Industry and Trade, 1960-1962. Adviser to Hugo B. Margáin, Subsecretary of Industry and Trade, 1962-1963. Adviser to the First National Committee for the Participation of Workers in the Utilities Industry, 1963-1964.

Economist, Department of Workers Participation in Utilities, Secretariat of Labor, 1964-1970. Director General of the Income Tax Division, 1970-1976. Director Gen-eral of Tax Administration, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1976-1978.

Subsecretary of Revenues, Secretariat of the Treasury, 1978-1986. Director General of the Multibanco Comermex, since 1986.

Religion

Roman Catholic

Connections

Spouse Laura Meza.

Father:

Guillermo Prieto Pérez

Mother:

Maria Luisa Fortún Aguilar

Spouse:

Laura Meza