Martin Werner

Martin Werner is a partner at Goldman Sachs, and director general of the firm's operations in Mexico.

In 1994, Werner^[1] was appointed assistant director of telecommunications in Mexico's Zedillo administration. When the Mexican economy plummeted, the Ministry of Finance hired Werner as Undersecretary, to help with the economic recovery. In the end, Mexico repaid its loans ahead of scheduled.

Werner is Israeli-Argentinian, so he was ineligible for the Mexican presidency. He also worried that another political party might get into power in the 2000 elections. Therefore, Werner joined Goldman Sachs.

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He is a native born Mexican and has no relationship with Argentina except that his parents were born there. This is Israeli thing is an antisemitic reference that he has jewish ancestors, neither he nor his parents are practicing jews or anything else for that matter He is nowheres related to this category, wikipedia was duped by an antisemitic organization. He is descended from Jews but neither he nor his parents are practicing any religion.

He is a fullfleged native-born Mexican who grew up in Mexico, went to school in Mexico - he is on the Board of the local American School Foundation. He has a bachelor's degree from ITAM and a Ph. D. in Economics from Yale University class '91. His parents are from the Argentine but they are Mexican residents for over 50 years and naturalized ctizens