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Ángel Gurría

José Ángel Gurría
Angel Gurria - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.jpg
Angel Gurria at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012
5th Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Assumed office
June 2006
Preceded by Don Johnston
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico
In office
1 January 1998 – 30 November 2000
Preceded by Guillermo Ortiz Martínez
Succeeded by Francisco Gil Díaz
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
In office
1 December 1994 – 31 December 1997
Preceded by Manuel Tello Macías
Succeeded by Rosario Green
Personal details
Born (1950-05-08) 8 May 1950 (age 66)
Tampico, Mexico
Nationality Mexican
Political party Revolutionary Institutional Party
Residence Paris, France
Alma mater National Autonomous University of Mexico
Profession Economist

José Ángel Gurría Treviño (born 8 May 1950), also known as Ángel Gurría, is a Mexican economist and diplomat. He is the current secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1 June 2006.

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. He served as the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1994–1997) and as Secretary of Finance (1998–2000) in the Ernesto Zedillo administration. In Foreign Affairs he opposed the Helms-Burton Act and while serving in Treasury, he restructured the foreign debt. He also negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and requested financial aid during the 1994 crisis.

Gurría has also been President and CEO of the National Development Bank of Mexico (Nafin) and President and CEO of the Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext). From 2003 to 2005 he was a chair member of the Inter-American Development Bank's External Advisory Group.

He was the architect of the Mexican economic stabilization, partially by cutting government spending six times during the Zedillo administration. The effect of his work has been felt during Vicente Fox's administration who nominated him to lead the OECD in July 2005.


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