Jose Gonzalez, who graduated from Asheville School in
1985 and currently serves on the Board of Trustees, was appointed Mexico’s
Minister of Finance on November 27. His move comes as former Finance Minister
Jose Antonio Meade announced his intentions to run for president.
Gonzalez
most recently served as the CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, more commonly known as
PEMEX.
Gonzalez
has also worked as Senior Economist for Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru at the World
Bank and as a professor and researcher at Stanford University. He also spent 10
years in Mexico’s Ministry of Finance, ultimately serving as the Undersecretary
of Income before assuming the role of Director General of the Mexican Institute
of Social Security in 2012. In 2016, he was appointed the CEO of Pemex by
Mexican President Peña Nieto.
In a recent
interview, Gonzalez offered this advice to Asheville School students: “Work
hard. Have fun. Find out how to do both, and you are all set.”
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