Emilio Lozoya Thalmann

This article is about the former Secretary of Energy. For his son, the former director of Pemex, see Emilio Lozoya Austin.

Emilio Lozoya Thalmann (born 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Secretary of Energy during the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.^[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lozoya and the second or maternal family name is Thalmann.

Emilio Lozoya graduated in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and holds a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University and a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University.

At the outset of his government in 1988, Salinas appointed him as Director-General of the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), a position he held until 1993 when he was appointed Secretary of Energy, Mines and State Owned Industry, a post in which he ended the administration.

Emilio Lozoya Thalmann is the son of Jesús Lozoya Solís, a pediatric surgeon, politician, General in the Mexican Army and businessman, and the father of Emilio Lozoya Austin, former CEO of Pemex.