Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape

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Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape (b. January 9, 1956 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican economist. He served as chief economic advisor to President Vicente Fox and currently serves as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.

Sojo graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) with a bachelor's degree in Economics and received both a master's degree in Economics and a doctorate in Industrial Organization and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania, where he published several papers on econometrics and time-series with Lawrence Klein, the 1980 laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.^[1]

Sojo has worked as a full-time professor at the ITESM Campus León, at the National Institute of Geography, Statistics and Informatics (INEGI) and served as the economic policy coordinator of Vicente Fox while he was serving as governor of Guanajuato. When Vicente Fox was sworn as president on December 1, 2000, Sojo was appointed his Chief Economic Advisor until his resignation in 2006, when he joined Felipe Calderon's transition team.

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Preceded by Sergio García de Alba

Secretary of Economy 2006 – present

Incumbent