| Jesús Silva Herzog Flores | |
|---|---|
| Secretary of Finance (Mexico) | |
| In office 1982 – 1986[1] |
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| President | Miguel de la Madrid |
| Preceded by | David Ibarra Muñoz |
| Succeeded by | Gustavo Petricioli |
| Secretary of Tourism (Mexico) | |
| In office 1994 – 30 November 1994[1] |
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| President | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Mexican Ambassador to the United States | |
| In office 10 February 1995 – 3 November 1997[2] |
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| President | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Preceded by | Jorge Montano [2] |
| Succeeded by | Jesús Reyes Heroles [2] |
| Mexican Ambassador to Spain | |
| In office 6 March 1991 – 14 January 1994[3] |
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| President | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Preceded by | Enrique González Pedrero [3] |
| Succeeded by | Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza [3] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 May 1935 [1] Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) [4] |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Yale University |
| Profession | Politician, economist |
Jesús Silva Herzog Flores (born on 8 May 1935 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).[4] He served as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–86), as an ambassador to Spain (1991–1994) and as Secretary of Tourism (1994) in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and as an ambassador to the United States (1995–97).[1]
Silva Herzog is son of the prominent economist Jesús Silva Herzog and Josefina Flores Villarreal.[4] He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, 1959) and a master's degree in the same discipline from Yale University (1962).[1]
He taught several courses in Economics at the UNAM (1963–69) and El Colegio de México (1964–69); worked as an economist for the Inter-American Development Bank (1962–63) and as Director-General of the National Institute of Housing (INFONAVIT, 1972–76) before joining the Bank of Mexico as director-general (1977–78) and serving as Undersecretary of Finance in the cabinet of José López Portillo (1979–82).[1]
In 2000 he lost Mexico City's Head of Government election to Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Silva Herzog was married to María Teresa Márquez Diez-Canedo and is the father of three children, including Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez.[4]