Jesús Silva Herzog Flores

Who is Jesús Silva Herzog Flores?

Jesús Silva Herzog Flores is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He served as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid, as an ambassador to Spain and as Secretary of Tourism in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and as an ambassador to the United States.

Silva Herzog is son of the prominent economist Jesús Silva Herzog and Josefina Flores Villarreal. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a master's degree in the same discipline from Yale University.

He taught several courses in Economics at the UNAM and El Colegio de México; worked as an economist for the Inter-American Development Bank and as Director-General of the National Institute of Housing before joining the Bank of Mexico as director-general and serving as Undersecretary of Finance in the cabinet of José López Portillo.

In 2000 he lost Mexico City's Head of Government election to Andrés Manuel López Obrador.