Jose Angel Gurria Treviño

Angel Gurrìa is currently Secretary-General (elect) for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He will officially assume his responsibilities in June 2006. Angel Gurrìa is México’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994-1997) and former Secretary of the Treasury (1998-2000). During his 33 years as a civil servant, he served as head of México’s national development bank (Nafinsa), and México’s equivalent to the Export-Import Bank (Bancomext). For ten years, he headed México’s foreign debt renegotiation team until the launching of the Brady Plan, which reduced México’s public sector debt to foreign banks by 35%.

Having left government in 2000, he now serves on a number of Boards and Advisory Boards for organizations, public and nonprofit institutions, as well as in private and profit oriented companies. In 2001 he co-chaired, with Paul Volcker, the "Report on the Role of Multilateral Financial Institutions in Middle- Income Countries " and in 2002, chaired the External Advisory Group on the future of the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), titled "The Challenge of Being Relevant”.