Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles

Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles González Garza (7 February 1952 – 21 January 2024) was a Mexican economist and politician. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and co-founder and executive president of Grupo de Economistas y Asociados (GEA), a consulting firm that has become the first independent organization dedicated to political and economic analysis. He held a B.A. in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles
Reyes Heroles in 2000
Director-general of Banobras
In office 1994–1995
President	Ernesto Zedillo
Energy Secretary
In office 1995–1997
President	Ernesto Zedillo
Ambassador to the United States
In office 1997–2000
President	Ernesto Zedillo
Director-general of PEMEX
In office 2006–2009
President	Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
Personal details
Born	(1952-02-07)7 February 1952 Mexico City, Mexico
Died	21 January 2024(2024-01-21) (aged 71)
Parent	Jesús Reyes Heroles (father)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Reyes Heroles and the second or maternal family name is González Garza.

Life and career

Reyes Heroles studied economics in Mexico and abroad.

In December 1994, President Ernesto Zedillo appointed him director-general of the Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos (BANOBRAS), the development bank for infrastructure. In 1995, Zedillo chose him as Secretary of Energy; he left that position in October 1997 when he was appointed Ambassador to the United States, where he served until November 2000.^[1]

In the run-up to the 2006 general election he publicly expressed his opposition to the nomination of the PRI's Roberto Madrazo and support for the National Action Party presidential candidate, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, although he did not renounce his party membership.^[2]

Following his victory in the election, President Calderón named Reyes Heroles as director-general of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) in December 2006.^[3] On 8 September 2009, he was relieved of that position.^[1]

Reyes Heroles died on 21 January 2024, at the age of 71.^[4][1]