It is not the first time that the graduate of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) from the Economics degree will work for the World Bank. Herrera was part of it in 2010 and until August 2018. He entered as a senior specialist in public sector management, and left the institution when he was a practice manager in the government area.
Who is Arturo Herrera Gutierrez?
The Master in Economics from the Colegio de México (Colmex), joined the transition team of the elected government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in September 2018, and in December he was appointed in charge of the Undersecretary of Revenue of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP).
On July 9, 2019, after the resignation of Carlos Urzúa, Herrera was appointed head of the SHCP, and he lasted in that position until July 2021.
His time at the Treasury and his aspiration to Banxico
As Secretary of the Treasury, he designed the economic packages for 2020 and 2021, circumvented the public finance crisis generated by the COVID pandemic, where the control of debtors to the treasury was optimized, and emergency financial funds such as the FEIP and the FEIEF were used. , to compensate for missing public revenue.
On June 9, 2021, President López Obrador proposed Herrera as governor of the Bank of Mexico (Banxico), for which he left the Treasury on the 30th of that month. In his place was the economist, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, current secretary of the SHCP.
However, the president withdrew this appointment from Herrera in August 2021, and Victoria Rodríguez Ceja, former Undersecretary of Expenditures, nominated by the president, remained at the head of Banxico.
Where do you currently work?
When the president appointed him as the future governor of Banxico, Herrera agreed to be a visiting professor at Colmex, since he would enter the central bank on January 1 of this year. His profile on LinkedIn indicates that he continues to teach at this educational campus.
Herrera’s duties at the World Bank, from Washington, begin in July of this year.
Trajectory in the public and private sectors
Arturo Herrera has a doctorate in Economics from New York University, has experience in the public and private sectors in the financial area, also as a teacher; from 1999 to 2009 he was a professor at Colmex and was also a subject professor at New York University from 1995 to 1998.
His career in the public sector began at the SHCP as deputy director of International Economic Studies in 1999, leaving that institution in August 2000 as deputy director of macroeconomic studies.
As he did in 2018, in September 2000, Arturo Herrera joined the transition team of the elected government of López Obrador, but as head of government of the then Federal District, in December he was appointed General Director of Financial Administration of the Federal District Government. (GDF), then took the reins of the GDF Finance Secretariat.
His experience in the private sector dates back to his work as director of Government Banking at IXE Grupo Financiero, from 2007 to 2009. He was executive director at Execution Finance, an investment bank.
