Raquel Buenrostro, a mathematician from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, will be the new Secretary of Economy, the president announced.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed the current head of the SAT, Rachelas the next head of the Ministry of Economy following the departure of Tatiana Clouthier.
“She has had a very good job because the collection has not decreased, I believe that what counts are the facts and she is an exemplary public servant, we have all the confidence and she is going to be the next Secretary of the Economy,” he announced at a press conference.
The president reserved the announcement for this Friday following Tatiana Clouthier appeared a day earlier at the National Palace to make her resignation public.
“I received a letter from Tatiana in which she informs me that she wishes to withdraw from the government, not like that of the fight for the transformation of the country. We respect her decision, we insist that she stay, but she is a woman with convictions, with criteria and she has made this decision, “she revealed in front of the media.
In the letter addressed to President López ObradorClouthier, thanked him for the place in the cabinet but assured that his “opportunity to add him to the team is exhausted.”
Who is Raquel Buenrostro?
Rachel es math by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he was awarded the Gabino Barreda medal with the thesis “About the Miller-Teply theorem”.
Later, he obtained the Master’s degree in Economics from El Colegio de México with the work “Behavior of the exchange rate within a band: analysis of the effects due to the intramarginal intervention of the Central Bank”.
It has a trajectory of more than 20 years within the public administration, where, among other functions, she has served as General Director of Administration in the Ministry of Tourism; General Director of Innovation and Quality in the Ministry of Public Education; Deputy General Director of Budgetary Control in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit; Manager of Planning and Development at Petróleos Mexicanos and Deputy Treasurer of Fiscal Policy at the Government of Mexico City.
Within the academy, he has taught various mathematics and economics courses at UNAM and El Colegio de México.
