Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Cedillo is a Mexican economist and politician who served as the President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000. After stepping down, Cedillo became an authority on globalization, especially playing a positive role in handling the relationship between developed and developing countries. Cedillo's career began with the Bank of Mexico, the Bank of Mexico, and he was a member of the PRI, the Mexican Revolutionary Institutional Party, supporting macroeconomic policy reforms in Mexico. In 1987, he became the Deputy Minister of Planning and Budget in Mexico. In 1988, at the age of 36, Sedillo became the minister and implemented a series of scientific and technological reforms. In 1992, Cedillo was appointed as Minister of Education by then President Carlos Salinas. One year later, he resigned and ran for the presidency of Mexico with Luis Donado Carosi as a presidential candidate of the Revolutionary Institutional Party. When Cedillo first took office as president, Mexico was hit by the most severe economic crisis in history. Cedillo led Mexico through a series of reform actions, including completing measures such as the privatization of the national railway company, the Mexican Railway Authority, which ultimately helped Mexico successfully overcome the crisis. After stepping down, Cedillo served as an economic advisor in many international companies and institutions. Cedillo served as a lecturer and director at the Center for Globalization Studies at Yale University in the United States; Member of the Advisory Committee at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance at Yale University School of Management; In 2005, he became the most influential member of the Washington financial advisory body at the G-30; Advisor to the Board of Directors of Stone Bridge International Company in the United States; In 2009, served as an external review of corporate governance for the World Bank Group; Served as a board member of Citibank in 2010; Board members of Procter&Gamble, Alcoa, Global Development Network, and Electronic Data Systems; Member of the Coca Cola International Advisory Committee; Director of United Pacific Railway Company, etc. After stepping down, Cedillo also participated in many organizations, such as joining the editorial board of the political journal of the American Quarterly to explore the relationship and development of the Western Hemisphere; Becoming a member of the Madrid Club; Serve as the Chairman of the Natural Resources Supervision Committee, etc. In July 2013, Sedillo joined The Elders, working with other global leaders to address world peace and human rights issues.