José Antonio Meade Kuribreña

José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (2015)

José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (born February 27, 1969 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican politician and economist. Long active as a non-party minister in both PRI and PAN- led governments, he became a member of the PRI in 2017 and ran for the coalition “All for Mexico” (Todos por México) of the parties PRI, PVEM and in the 2018 presidential election in Mexico Nueva Alianza . He landed in third place with around 21 percent of the vote.

Life

Meade Kuribreña is the son of Dionisio Meade y Garcia de Leon and his wife Lucía Kuribreña, daughter of the lawyer and sculptor José Kuribreña. The ancestors of the Meade Kuribreña family come from Ireland and Lebanon.

In 1987 he began studying economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). There he met two later colleagues in the Peña Nieto government, Luis Videgaray Caso (Foreign Minister and Finance Minister) and Virgilio Andrade Martínez (Minister for Control and Administrative Management and Director of the “Banco del Ahorro Nacional y Servicios Financieros”). He also completed his master's degree in law at the law faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Meade Kuribreña received her doctorate in economics from Yale University in 1997 . He received his PhD in Public Finance and International Economics on The Economics of Sentencing Guidelines: Evidence of Federal Fraud Offenders.

Meade Kuribreña was Energy Minister (7 January to 9 September 2011) and Finance Minister (9 September 2011 to 30 November 2012) in the Felipe Calderón cabinet . Immediately afterwards, he became Foreign Minister (December 1, 2012 to August 26, 2015), Minister of Social Affairs (August 27, 2015 to September 6, 2016) and again Minister of Finance (September 7, 2016 to November 27, 2016) in Enrique Peña Nieto's cabinet of the political opposing side 2017).

José Antonio Meade Kuribreña ran for the presidential election in Mexico in 2018 for the PRI-led electoral alliance "Todos por México" as a candidate for president and received around 21 percent of the vote. He thus contributed to a historically poor result of the PRI. The sociologist Emir Simão Sader wrote before the 2018 presidential election that José Antonio Meade was one of the “typical neoliberal economists” the PRI had chosen as its candidate. Although he is running as an external candidate for the PRI, he is "fully integrated into the corporate elite".

Individual evidence

1. ^ José Antonio Meade: José Antonio Meade. April 20, 2012, accessed July 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ https:// Amerika21.de/2018/01/193259/mexiko-praesidentschaftswahl