Agustín COPPEL LUKEN
Agustin Coppel Luken was born in Culiacan in 1961. He has a degree in Marketing from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He also has 4 graduates in different areas: Skills for Senior Management and Quality, Giving Group; Address Multiple Stores, Friedman Group; Brain Development, Institute for Human Development in Philadelphia; Senior Management, Cedem.
He has served as Chairman and CEO of Grupo Coppel and Coppel SA de C.V since 2008. He has also been the President of BanCoppel, and Afore Coppel Coppel Capital since 2006.
He has been the director of FINCAMEX since 1996 and Crédito y Casa, Sofol Hipotecaria. In 2004, he was appointed director and president of Círculo de Crédito. He has been involved in social and cultural organizations, such as the Botanical and Zoological Society of Sinaloa, the Society of Friends of MASIN, el Patronato del Seminario Diocesano de Culiacán and the Foundation Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection.
He is a director and founder of the Sinaloa Art Society. He serves as a director of the Foundation Ecoregión Sinaloa, the Rufino Tamayo Museum Foundation of the First Mexican Foundation and the Committee of Contemporary Art Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Enrique KRAUZE KLEINBORT
Enrique is a historian and essayist born in Mexico City in 1947. He is an industrial engineer from UNAM (1969) and received his PhD in History from El Colegio de Mexico (1974). In 1977, he joined the magazine Vuelta as deputy editor, and from 1981-1996, he was the deputy director. In 1991, he founded the publishing house Clio, of which he is the director. In 1999, he found and became the director of the magazine, Letras Libres.
As a writer, he has written several genres: biography, history, essay and interview. For more than 30 years, he has published several books, including Caudillos culturales en la Revolucion Mexicana (1976), La reconstrucción económica (1977), Daniel Cosío Villegas. Una biografía intelectual (1980), Por una democracia sin adjetivos (1986), Biografía del poder (1987), Siglo de caudillos (1993), La presidencia imperial (1997), Mexicanos eminentes (1999), Tarea política (2000), Travesía liberal (2003), La Presencia del pasado (2005), Para salir de Babel (2006) y Retratos personales (2007). His most recent work is El Poder y el Delirio (2008). His work on the history of Mexico was published in 1997 in the United States by Harper Collins under the title Mexico: Biography of Power.
Krauze has authored documentaries and TV series on Mexican history, including Biography of Power (1987), Mexico: Siglo XX (1998-2000) and Mexico: New Century (2001-2003).
In 1990, he joined the Mexican Academy of History. He won the "Premio Comillas" Biography in Spain (1993). In December 2003, the Spanish Government awarded him the "Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X, the Wise." In April 2005, he became a member of the National College. On July 5, 2006, the government of Querétaro presented him the award, "Ezequiel Montes Ledesma". Recently, September 12, 2007, he was honored by the Universidad Autonoma de nuevo León with PhD Honoris Causa. On, August 2008, the King of Spain awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.
Since 1985, he has written for Dissent Magazine, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times.
Alejandro RAMÍREZ MAGAÑA
Alejandro Ramírez Magaña is a doctoral candidate in economics from the University of Cambridge, England. He receieved his Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA, and a Master in Development Economics from the University of Oxford, England. He holds a degree in economics from Harvard University and Cambridge.
He has been the CEO of Cinépolis since June 2004 to date. Previously, he was the Alternate Representative of Mexico for OECD, Permanent Delegation of Mexico for OECD in Paris, France from April 2003 to June 2004, and Technical Secretary of the Office of Human Development and Social Presidency of the Republic from April 2002 April 2003. He has served as Professor at the Faculty of Economics at Harvard University; economic analyst with the United Nations Program for Development in New York, USA, and economic consultant for the World Bank in Washington, USA. He also was an economic consultant of World Institute for Development Economic Research in Helsinki, Finland.
He is a member of the Advisory Council on Human Development Report United Nations Development Programme and the Advisory Council on Social Development of the Ministry of Social Development; and the Advisory Council and the Panel of Evaluators of the Journal of Human Development and the Technical Advisory Council of the Fund for Quality Film Production and FilmAid Board, an international civil organization working in refugee camps in Kenya and Tanzania. From 2002 to 2007 he was a member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Expansion. He has been selected as "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum in 2005, received the medals "Erendira" to work towards gender equity, and received various awards from the Institute for Women Michoacan in March 2004; "José Tocaven" Professional Merit, in September 1999; "Exavall" Academic Merit in November 1998. Furthermore, he has been chosen as one of the top five strategists of 1999 by the Expansion Magazine.
She has a degree in International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico and a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. She has served as professor and researcher at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and the American University of Paris.
She has been a teacher visitor at Georgetown, Northwestern, Torcuatto I gave Tella, UNAM and Salamanca. She has held the Academic Secretary of CIDE from 1996 to 2004. She was subsequently appointed by the General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute as head of the Center for Democratic Development. In 2005, she assumed the position of Academic Vice-Rector of the American University in Paris and in 2007, she was represented Mexico and Latin America in an OECD competition. She was Commissioner for Political Development in the Interior Ministry between January 2009 and July 2010. Currently, she conducts research and executes social entrepreneurship projects in the field of education and economic growth.
Throughout her career, Heredia has combined her research work and instruction in political science with executive responsibilities such as the management, administration, and academic institutions redesign. She has numerous publications on institutional and policy reforms, most notably her book “Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries”.
In terms of executive responsibilities, she has developed and promoted innovative pro-equity projects, accountability, the rule of law and strong democratic practices. Sher has pursued the above-mentioned responsibilities through design and implementation of programs and projects with high impact on teaching, research, and outreach in various disciplines within the social sciences. She has also had extensive experience in media. Furthermore, she participated in a panel within the Spotlight Program and is currently a columnist for the daily newspaper, La Razón.
Blanca HEREDIA
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