Francisco Gil Díaz

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Francisco Gil Díaz

Francisco Gil Díaz (b. 2 September 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist who serves in the board of corporate directors of HSBC Group in London as of early 2007. He served as Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox (1 December 2000 – 30 November 2006).

Gil Díaz is the son of Francisco Gil Arias, a fisherman, and Ana María Díaz Perches. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Autonomous Technology Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, United States. He sits in the board of the Ibero-American University, the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and the Mexican Center of the University of Texas at Austin.

In the public sector he has served as undersecretary of finance (1988 – 1994) and vice-governor of the Mexican central bank (1994 – 1997). In the private sector he worked as CEO of Avantel, a Mexican telephone and internet service provider (1997; November 2000).

Gil Díaz is married to Margarita White de la Peña and has four children, including Francisco Gil-White. He joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1979 and taught economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, where is also an emeritus professor.