Jaime José Serra Puche is a Mexican

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 economist. He is Chairman of SAI Consulting and Principal of NAFTA Fund. His professional practice includes the design of investment strategies in Mexico for foreign companies and advice to Mexican companies interested in becoming regional players in North America.

He served as Mexico's Undersecretary of Revenue, Secretary of Commerce and Industry

Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development (Mexico)

In Mexico,The Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development was the head of the extinct Secretariat of Commerce and Industrial Development...

 in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and for 28 days he served as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party...

. Mr. Serra led the negotiation and implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement

North American Free Trade Agreement

The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement...

 (NAFTA); promoted the conclusion of the Uruguay Round

Uruguay Round

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 and the creation of the World Trade Organization

World Trade Organization

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 (WTO); headed the negotiations of free trade agreements with Chile

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, Colombia

Colombia

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, Venezuela

Venezuela

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, Bolivia

Bolivia

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 and Costa Rica

Costa Rica

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 and promoted the creation of the Federal Competition Commission.

He was a trustee of the Yale Corporation and currently co-chairs The President's Council on International Activities of Yale University

Yale University

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. He is a member of The Trilateral Commission and The US-Mexico Bilateral Council. He is a director of the following publicly listed companies: Chiquita Brands International

Chiquita Brands International

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 (CQB); The Mexico Fund (MXF), Tenaris

Tenaris

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 (TS), Vitro (VTO) and Grupo Modelo

Grupo Modelo

Grupo Modelo is a large brewery in Mexico, It has 63% of the Mexican beer market, and exports beer to the United Kingdom, United States and Canada . Its export brands include Corona, Modelo, and Pacífico...

 (GMODELOC).

Jaime Serra is the son of Jorge Serra Perayre and Carmen Puche Planes. He received a bachelor's degree in political science and public administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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, a master's degree in economics from El Colegio de México

El Colegio de México

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 and a doctorate's degree in economics from Yale University

Yale University

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.

He has taught several courses in economics at El Colegio de México (1979–1986) and at Stanford University

Stanford University

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 (1982). From 1986 until 1988 he served as undersecretary of finance in the cabinet of Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.-Biography:...

. He received the National Prize of Social Sciences, Mexico 1986 and National Prize of Economics, Mexico 1979. He has written numerous articles in professional economics journals, many of them jointly with the American macroeconomist Timothy J. Kehoe

Timothy J. Kehoe

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Serra is married to Joanna Wright Abbott.

Sources

• Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.
• SAI Consulting