Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández
Ifigenia Martha Martínez y Hernández (born June 16, 1925 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican economist and politician .
Career
Martínez studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) between 1942 and 1946 before receiving her doctorate from Harvard University after gaining a master's degree in economics in 1949 . Between 1951 and 1952 she worked for the Unión Panamericana in Washington, DC , then she was head of the Bureau for Financial Policy and the Department of Financial Analysis at the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público .
Martínez worked at UNAM from 1955 until 1971, between 1957 and 1962 she was professor at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos and from 1967 director of the business school at UNAM. In the 1970s she worked as a government official a. a. back in the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público before the 1976 as MP for a three-year term House of Representatives was elected. From 1980 she was Deputy Ambassador of Mexico to the United Nations for two years and then until 1986 for the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores .
From the mid-1980s, Martínez appeared again increasingly on a political level. In 1988 she was elected to the Senate , during the three-year term she served as Vice President of the Chamber of Parliament. After she had been a member of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional since the 1960s , she was one of the founding members of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática in 1989 and sat on the party's executive committee until 1995. Between 1994 and 1997 and 2009 to 2012 she sat again in the House of Representatives.
Martinez was one of the main proponents of the political reform of the status of Mexico City to a federal district, in 2016 she was elected member of the Constituent Assembly and acted there as vice-president. In 2018 she changed parties again and joined the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional . In the same year she was re-elected to the Senate.
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| SURNAME | Martínez y Hernández, Ifigenia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martínez y Hernández, Ifigenia Martha (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican economist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |