Carlos Heredia

Who is Carlos Heredia?

Carlos Heredia is a Mexican economist born in Tampico, Tamaulipas in 1956. Heredia served as a Member of Mexico's 57th Congress from 1997 to 2000.

He has held senior positions with Mexico’s Treasury Department and the Government of Mexico City. He was Senior Advisor on International Affairs to Lázaro Cárdenas-Batel, Governor of the State of Michoacán, from 2003 to 2008. He was the economic and international affairs spokesperson of the presidential campaign of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas in 2000 and has since been his advisor in the Foundation for Democracy.

Carlos Heredia has worked for almost thirty years with development NGOs, including two of Mexico's leading organizations of civil society, Equipo PUEBLO and Iniciativa Ciudadana para la Promoción de la Cultura del Diálogo.

Heredia was part of the Independent Task Force on Building a North American Community, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in 2005. He is a member of the International Committee of the Latin American Migrant Community Summit. Since 2008 he has served on the Advisory Board of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.