Sergio García de Alba Zepeda is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 businessman who served as Secretary of Economy

Secretary of Economy (Mexico)

In Mexico, the Secretariat of Economy is the government department in charge of economic affairs...

 in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...

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García de Alba holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the ITESO. He received an MBA from the IPADE

IPADE

IPADE, is the business school of Universidad Panamericana, or Pan-American University, a private university in Mexico...

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He served as vice-president of the CONCAMIN (Spanish acronym for Confederación de Cámaras Industriales de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos) from January 1993 to February 1995. He worked in the cabinet of Alberto Cárdenas

Alberto Cárdenas

Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez is a Mexican politician affiliated to the conservative National Action Party . He is a former governor of Jalisco, and Secretary of Agriculture in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón...

 during his Jalisco

Jalisco

Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...

's governorship. In 2003 Fernando Canales Clariond

Fernando Canales Clariond

Fernando de Jesús Canales Clariond is a Mexican politician and businessman affiliated to the National Action Party . He succeeded his cousin, Benjamín Clariond as governor of Nuevo León in 1997...

 invited him to work in the Secretary of Economy. President

President of Mexico

The President of the United Mexican States is the head of state and government of Mexico. Under the Constitution, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces...

 Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...

 designated him Secretary of Economy in 2005 replacing former incumbent Canales.

Nowadays, he is the President of the Institute for Innovation, Competitiveness and Entrepreneurial Development at Tecnológico de Monterrey.