Everardo Elizondo
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Mexico
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economist
Economics
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who has worked for private, public, and academic institutions.
He was born in Linares
Linares, Nuevo León
Linares is a small city in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The city serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name and it is the largest urban centre of the so called "orange belt" region. The city had a 2005 census population of 56,065, while the...
, Nuevo León
Nuevo León
Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...
. After earning a bachelor's degree with honors in economics from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, he studied a master's degree and a PhD, both in economics, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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in the United States
United States
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. He earned a diploma in taxation at Harvard University
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.
His professional career started in Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
, Nuevo Leon
Nuevo León
Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...
in the Department of Economic Studies of Compañía General de Acceptaciones, a private financial institution, which later became Grupo Financiero Serfin (now Banco Santander). From there he moved to Grupo Alfa, a leader of the Mexican industry in the seventies, where he served as General Director for Economic Studies for eight years. Afterwards he created and led during nine years a private consultancy: Index, Economía Applicada. He also briefly collaborated as a consultant with the Nuevo Leon State Government during the Sócrates Rizzo
Sócrates Rizzo
Sócrates Cuauhtémoc Rizzo García is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He is a former federal Congressman , mayor of Monterrey and former governor of Nuevo León Rizzo García is the son of Neftalí Rizzo Rizzo and Jovita García Decanini...
's administration. In 1992 he joined Grupo Financiero Bancomer (now BBVA-Bancomer) as Director of Economic Research.
In 1998 president Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo
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invited him to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Bank of Mexico, to take the position left by Francisco Gil Díaz
Francisco Gil Díaz
Francisco Gil Díaz is a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox and currently serves as regional chairman of Telefónica for Mexico and Central America....
as deputy governor. In 2000 the Senate of the Republic approved the president Vicente Fox Quesada's nomination for Everardo Elizondo to undertake a full eight-year period, which ended the last day of December 2008.
Everardo Elizondo was also a founder and head of the Graduate School of Economics at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, which later became the Postgraduate Studies Division in Economics. He has lectured several courses in that University's Department of Economics, and also in the School of Economics and in the Graduate School at the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM). From 1982 to 1983 he visited the Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Texas (Austin) as a research fellow.
A renowned economics and finance columnist for more than 30 years, he writes a weekly column that is simultaneously published at El Norte and Reforma, and makes eventual contributions to El Economista, academic books and periodicals. He has been a member of the board of directors of several Mexican institutions, like the Universidad Mexicana del Noreste, Grupo Senda, Farmacias Benavides and Grupo Financiero Banorte. Frequently, he gives conferences in Mexico and abroad.
From January 2009 he is full-time lecturer at the ITESM in Monterrey. On January 1, 2010 Elizondo was appointed independent advisor for Banorte Financial Group
Banorte
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