Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape
Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape | |
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| Born | January 9, 1956 |
| Occupation | Economist |
Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape (born January 9, 1956, in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican economist. He served as chief economic advisor to President Vicente Fox and as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón from December 1, 2006 to August 6, 2008.
Sojo graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) with a bachelor's degree in Economics and received both a master's degree in economics and a doctorate in Industrial Organization and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania, where he published several papers on econometrics and time-series with Lawrence Klein, the 1980 laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[1]
Sojo has worked as a full-time professor at the ITESM Campus León, at the National Institute of Geography, Statistics and Informatics (INEGI) and served as the economic policy coordinator of Vicente Fox while he was serving as governor of Guanajuato. When Vicente Fox was sworn as president on December 1, 2000, Sojo was appointed his Chief Economic Advisor until his resignation in 2006, when he joined Felipe Calderon's transition team. From 2008 to 2015 Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape served as President of the Governing Board of INEGI, National Institute of Statistics and Geography.[2][3] He was the co-chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM).[4][5]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Perfil: Eduardo Sojo, Secretaría de Economía" (in Spanish). El Universal (Mexico). 2006-11-21. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
- ^ "Página no encontrada". www.inegi.org.mx.
- ^ "Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape- Yo Político / Red Política – el Universal". Archived from the original on 2013-08-24. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
- ^ "Dr Vanessa Lawrence elected as Co-Chair of UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management". Archived from the original on 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
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- 1956 births
- Secretaries of economy of Mexico
- Mexican economists
- Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni
- Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
- Wharton School alumni
- Politicians from Guanajuato
- People from León, Guanajuato
- 21st-century Mexican politicians