Pedro Ojeda Paullada, Mexican federal official. Decorated Order of Merit Italy, Order Isabel la Catolica Spain; recipient Gran Cruz al Merito, Italy.
Background
Ojeda Paullada, Pedro was born on January 19, 1934 in Federal District, Mexico. Personal friend of Luis Echeverría. Knew Jorge de la Vega Dominguez as a student at Law School lawyer.
Son of lawyer Manuel R. Ojeda Lacroix, director of the Legal Department, Secretary of Health, and Adela Paullada Preciat.
Education
Primary studies in Mexico City, 1940-1944. Secondary studies in Mexico City, 1945-1947. Preparatory studies at the National Preparatory School, 1948-1949.
Studied at the National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1950-1954, law degree, 1955, with a thesis on Federal Boards of Moral and Material Improvement.
Career
Joined Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1951. Member, Organizing Committee of the National Program of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1962. Representative of Institutional Revolutionary Party to the Electoral Commission for the 13th District, Mexico City, 1963-1964.
Delegate of the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party to Morelos, 1969. President of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1981-1982. Merit employee, Seventh Civil Judicial District, Federal District, 1950-1951.
Employee, Personnel Department, Petróleos Mexicanos, 1952. Legal intern, Secretariat of Health and Welfare, 1953. Subdirector General of the Federal Boards for Material Improvements, Secretariat of National Patrimony, under José López Portillo, 1959-1965.
Adviser to the Chihuahua-Pacific Railroad. Director General of Legal Affairs, Secretariat of Communication and Transportation. Director of the Technical Advisory Commission of General Means of Communication, Secretariat of Communication and Transportation, 1966-1970.
Oficial Mayor of the Presidency, 1970-1971. Attorney General of Mexico, 1971-1976. Secretary of Labor, 1976-1981.
Head, Department of Fisheries, since 1982. Practiced law, 1955-1959.
Religion
Roman Catholic
Membership
Founder and President of the Platform of Mexican Professionals, 1961.