Everardo Elizondo Almaguer is a Mexican economist who has worked for private, public, and academic institutions. By senatorial appointment, he served as deputy governor of the

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—the country's

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— from 1998 to 2008.

Biography

He was born in Linares, Nuevo León. After earning a bachelor's degree with honors in Economics from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (UANL), he graduated with both a master's degree and a Ph.D. in the same discipline at the

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in the

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. He also completed an International Tax Program diploma from

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in 1972. His professional career started in

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, in the Department of Economic Studies of ''Compañía General de Acceptaciones'', a private financial institution which later became Grupo Financiero Serfin (nowadays

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). From there, he moved to Grupo Alfa, a leader of the Mexican industry in the 1970s, where he served for eight years as director-general for Economic Studies. Afterwards, he created and led a private consultancy for nine years: ''Index, Economía Applicada''. He also briefly collaborated as a consultant with the Nuevo León State Government during Sócrates Rizzo's administration. In 1992, he joined Grupo Financiero Bancomer (nowadays

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) as director of Economic Research. In 1998, president

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invited him to be a member of the Board of Governors of the

— the

— to take the position left by Francisco Gil Díaz as deputy governor. In 2000, the

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approved his nomination by President

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to undertake a full eight-year period, which ended on the last day of December 2008. Elizondo was also a founder and head of the Graduate School of Economics at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, which later became the Postgraduate Studies Division in Economics. He has lectured several courses there and, since 2009, at the Graduate School of Public Administration (EGAP) of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM). From 1982 to 1983 he visited the Institute for Latin American Studies at the

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as a research fellow. He has worked as an economics and finance columnist for more than 35 years, writing a weekly column that is simultaneously published at '' El Norte'' and '' Reforma'', and makes eventual contributions to '' El Economista'', academic books and periodicals. He has been a member of the board of directors of several Mexican institutions, such as Universidad Mexicana del Noreste, Grupo Senda, Farmacias Benavides and Grupo Financiero Banorte, where he is an independent advisor since 1 January 2010. He is also a frequent public speaker in Mexico and abroad.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elizondo, Everardo 1943 births Living people Mexican economists People from Linares, Nuevo León University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni University of Texas at Austin people Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education