Alberto Emiliano Cinta Martínez (born in

Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...

) is a Mexican

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, entrepreneur and

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who is a founder and became the first general secretary of the

New Alliance Party The New Alliance Party (NAP) was an American political party formed in New York City in 1979. Its immediate precursor was an umbrella organization known as the Labor Community Alliance for Change, whose member groups included the Coalition of Gr ...

(PANAL). He ran as the PANAL's candidate for Mayor of Mexico City

Head of Government of the Federal District The head of government () wields executive power in Mexico City. The head of government serves a six-year term, running concurrently with that of the president of the Republic. Mexico City, or CDMX, is the seat of national government, and is l ...

in the 2006 Federal District election. He has been a Congressman, public servant, university professor and entrepreneur. He studied economics at the ITAM in Mexico City, and holds two master's degrees from both the Ecole Nationale d'Administratuon (ENA, Paris) and Harvard (KSG, Massachusetts). He has been a deputy at the Chamber of Deputies for the Green Party and president of the Special Commission of Competitiveness (2009-2012) and also a deputy for Mexico City (2012-2015). Since 2001 he is the founder and chairman of a leading Mexican hospitality group that operates more than fifty high-end restaurants, nightclubs, business clubs, and concert halls. In 2014 his group started operations in the US with the opening of its first restaurant (Cantina La Veinte), in Miami.

Personal life and education

Cinta is the son of

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Alberto Cinta Guzmán. He holds a

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from the

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México The Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (), commonly known as ITAM, is a private university located in Mexico City. It is one of Mexico's most important institutions of higher learning; highly prestigious in the social sciences. It is a ...

(ITAM) where he studied from 1989 to 1993. From 1994 to 1995 he pursued graduate studies at the

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(ENA) where he received a

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and

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. He also holds a master's degree in public administration from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. He has participated in academic publications such as "Towards Mexico's Democratization" (Routledge 1999) and "México Visión Global, la agenda para el siglo XXI" (Porrúa, 2006), among others. He is the

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and chairman of the Board of Directors of Cinbersol S.A., the leading company for high end hospitality in Mexico that operates several restaurants, concert halls and clubs in Mexico and the US such as "Club Piso 51", ''Landó Grill'', ''Restaurante Lamm'', "50 Friends", "Sud 777", ''Ivoire'' and "Cantina La Veinte" among others.

Professional career

In 1991 Cinta joined the

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working for the

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's office as Director of

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analysis under

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Carlos Salinas de Gortari. He also joined the office of the President

Ernesto Zedillo Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was the 61st president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Re ...

of the PRI, as General Director of Research and Analysis (1995–1997). From 1999 to 2000 he served as advisor for

Francisco Labastida Francisco Labastida Ochoa (; born 14 August 1942) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which h ...

's presidential campaign (PRI). From 2003 to 2005 he served as General Director of the ''Centro de Estudios Sociales y de Opinión Pública'' of the

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References

* Living people Politicians from Mexico City Mexican economists Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni École nationale d'administration alumni New Alliance Party (Mexico) politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Mexico-economist-stub