Enrique Jackson

Who is Enrique Jackson?

Jesús Enrique Jackson Ramírez is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Jackson was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. He received a bachelor's degree in Public Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and started a career in the federal bureaucracy.

From mid-1980s to mid-1990s, before the introduction of direct elections of local officials in the Mexico City, Jackson was appointed chief administrator of Mexico City's Cuauhtémoc borough, took charge of the Federal District's security office and headed the public transportation authority. Four years later, he became secretary-general of the extinct Mexican Federal District Department.

In recent years he has been elected to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

During the first months of 2005 he participated in the PRI presidential primaries.