Ángel Gurría

Ángel Gurría    (economist)
Born	8 May 1950 Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Leeds, Harvard
Member of	WEF/Board of Trustees
Party	Revolutionary Institutional Party
Former Secretary-General of the OECD. Member of Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum. Part of the “prefiguration group” of the Forum on Information & Democracy a planned international censorship treaty  OECD/Secretary-General In office 1 June 2006 - 31 May 2021 Deputy Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen Preceded by Donald Johnston Succeeded by Mathias Cormann  Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico In office 1 January 1998 - 30 November 2000 Appointed by Ernesto Zedillo  Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico In office 1 December 1994 - 31 December 1997 Appointed by Ernesto Zedillo

José Ángel Gurría Treviño, also known as Ángel Gurría, is a Mexican economist and diplomat. From 1 June 2006 to 31 May 2021, he was the secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

He is a member of Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, central in the implementation of the COVID-agenda, including "building back better". As he left the OECD, he stated "the environment, climate change and the protection of nature must be the defining tasks of rich and major developing countries now and in the years to come" and "urging countries to consider attaching environmental conditions to bailouts where appropriate".

Since leaving the OECD, he is part of the “prefiguration group” of the Forum on Information & Democracy a planned international censorship treaty that will "require the promotion of “reliable information” and enshrine "the link between freedom of opinion and factual truths," as defined by governments and corporate fact checkers.

Early life and education

Born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Gurría graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and at Harvard University in the United States.

Besides his native Spanish, Gurría speaks French, English, Portuguese, Italian and German.

Career

Early career

Gurría served in the financial area of Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), National Development Bank (Nafinsa), Rural Development Fund, and the Office of the Mayor of Mexico City from 1968 to 1976. From 1976 to 1978, Gurría served as Mexico’s Permanent Representative to the International Coffee Organization (IFO), based in London. In the 1980, Gurría was Mexico's lead negotiator on restructuring its foreign debt.

Gurría served as President and CEO of the Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext) from 1992 until 1993.

Career in Mexican politics

Gurría served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1994–1997) in the Ernesto Zedillo administration. In this capacity, he also negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and requested financial aid during the 1994 crisis. Also, he opposed the Helms-Burton Act.

As Secretary of Finance (1998–2000), Gurría oversaw the initial years of Mexico's membership in the OECD and chaired the organization's ministerial council in 1999. Gurría restructured the Mexican economy, partially by cutting government spending six times during the Zedillo administration.

After leaving government office, Gurría taught International Relations and Financial Economics at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). From 2003 to 2005 he chaired the Inter-American Development Bank's External Advisory Group.

Secretary-General of OECD

In 2005, Gurría emerged at the head of a crowded field of candidates, including former Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka, to succeed Donald Johnston of Canada as the OECD secretary general. In the process, he underwent about 150 interviews in all member countries over the several months to win the backing of governments and OECD officials. During his initial two terms, countries such as Chile, Estonia, and Israel joined the organization. On 26 May 2015, the 34 member countries of the OECD decided to renew Gurría's mandate for the period 2016–2021.

Stakeholder capitalism

Since 2010, Gurría has been also serving as a Commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development which leverages broadband technologies as a key enabler for social and economic development. He also belonged to the United Nations Secretary General’s Global Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, chaired by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto of Japan.

Since leaving the OECD, he is part of the “prefiguration group” Forum on Information & Democracy a planned international censorship treaty that will "require the promotion of “reliable information” and enshrine "the link between freedom of opinion and factual truths," as defined by governments and corporate fact checkers.

Building back better

Gurría is a proponent of WEF leader Klaus Schwab's stakeholder capitalism and a corporate takeover of the state with public-private partnerships: "To address the global challenges that have been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, the public and private sectors will have to collaborate much more closely....Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG), a strategic partnership between the OECD and 35 major global companies, is one major initiative seeking to change how business is done....Together with the OECD’s Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability, and Equal Opportunity (WISE), the coalition is exploring how non-financial performance indicators – such as stakeholder well-being and environmental footprints – can be incorporated into business models...Public-private partnerships are essential for a strong, inclusive recovery and tackling the intersecting challenges that we face. Today’s global problems demand fresh thinking about the roles of businesses, governments, and civil society, and about how they can best work together."

Other activities

• OECD/UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), Co-Chair of the Governing Board (since 2015)
• Bocconi University, Member of the International Advisory Council
• Inter-American Development Bank, Member of the Advisory Board on Financing the Private Sector in Latin America
• Inter-American Dialogue, Member
• Reimagine Europa, Member of the Advisory Board
• World Economic Forum (WEF), Member of the Board of Trustees
• World Economic Forum (WEF), Member of the Global Agenda Council on Water Security (2012-2014)

Recognition

Gurría is a recipient of many honorary degrees, from the Universidad de Valle de México, Rey Juan Carlos University, European Universities of Leeds, Haifa, and Bratislava.

In 2007, Gurría was the first recipient of the Globalist of the Year Award of the Canadian International Council to honour his effort as a global citizen to promote trans-nationalism, inclusiveness and a global consciousness. His award include the Ben Gurion Leadership Award, the Award Isidro Fabela by the Mexican Association of International Studies, The Nueva Economía Award, the Orden Bernardo O'Higgins en el Grado de Gran Cruz, and the Medalla Rectorial from the University of Chile.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007	24 January 2007	28 January 2007	Switzerland	Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants
WEF/Annual Meeting/2008	23 January 2008	27 January 2008	World Economic Forum Switzerland	At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013	23 January 2013	27 January 2013	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015	21 January 2015	24 January 2015	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2018	23 January 2018	26 January 2018	Switzerland	~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World Economic Forum Switzerland	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	World Economic Forum Switzerland	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.

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