Gustavo Petricioli Iturbide (19 August 1928 – 9 October 1998) was a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance (1986–1988) in the last cabinet of Miguel de la Madrid and as Mexican ambassador to the United States (January 1989 – 1993).[3]
Gustavo Petricioli | |
|---|---|
| Secretary of Finance and Public Credit | |
| In office 17 June 1986 – 30 November 1988[1] | |
| President | Miguel de la Madrid |
| Preceded by | Jesús Silva Herzog |
| Succeeded by | Pedro Aspe |
| Ambassador of Mexico to the United States | |
| In office 17 January 1989 – 15 January 1993[2] | |
| President | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Preceded by | Jorge Espinoza de los Reyes[2] |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Mario Montaño[2] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 August 1928[1] Mexico City |
| Died | 9 October 1998 (aged 70) [3] Mexico City |
| Political party | Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) [4] |
| Alma mater | ITAM, Yale University |
Biography
editPetricioli was the son of Carlos Petricioli Alarcón and Ada Iturbide Preciat.[4] He received a high school diploma from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), a bachelor's degree in Economics from the ITAM (1952) and a master's degree in the same discipline from Yale University (1958).[1] He lectured on Monetary Theory at both ITAM and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and joined the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in 1952.[4]
Before joining the federal cabinet Petricioli served as undersecretary of Finance (1970–74), as deputy director of the Bank of Mexico (1975–1976), and as director-general of Nacional Financiera (1982–1986).[1] As secretary of Finance, he co-authored the Pact for Stability and Economic Growth (in Spanish: Pacto para la estabilidad y el crecimiento económico), a national strategy to control the fiscal deficit and inflation in coordination with the private sector.[4]
Petricioli died of a heart attack on 9 October 1998 at Los Angeles Hospital, in Mexico City.[3][4] He married Rosa Blanca Morales Murphy and they had two children: Gustavo and Ada. After their divorce, he remarried to Maria Luisa Castellón, mother of his next two children Hugo and Maria Luisa. Maria Luisa has two children now; Luisa and Mateo. In his honor, a remembrance book, El complejo arte de vivir: homenaje a Gustavo Petricioli, was published by Editorial Porrúa and a statue was erected at ITAM; his alma mater.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993 (3rd ed.). University of Texas Press. p. 557. ISBN 9780292711815. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
- ^ a b c "Diplomatic Representation for Mexico (United Mexican States)". U.S. Department of State. 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
- ^ a b c "Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexico's Ex-Envoy". New York Times. 1998-10-12. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
- ^ a b c d e Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano (in Spanish). Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1992. ISBN 968-820-177-4.
- ^ "Presentación del libro "El complejo arte de vivir. Homenaje a Gustavo Petricioli"" (in Spanish). Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. 2006-05-28. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2008-11-28.