Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo | |
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President of the Senate of Mexico | |
Assumed office September 1, 2012 |
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Preceded by | José Gonzalez Morfín |
Senator of Mexico | |
Assumed office September 1, 2012 |
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Secretary of Finance and Public Credit | |
In office December 9, 2009 – September 9, 2011 |
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Preceded by | Agustin Carstens |
Succeeded by | José Antonio Meade Kuribreña |
Secretary of Social Development | |
In office January 15, 2008 – December 9, 2009 |
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Preceded by | Beatriz Zavala Peniche |
Succeeded by | Heriberto Félix Guerra |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo May 9, 1968 Mexico City, Mexico |
Nationality | Mexican |
Political party | National Action Party |
Spouse(s) | Cristina Keller |
Relations | Married |
Alma mater | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
Profession | Actuary |
Website | SHCP |
Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo is a Mexican politician (born on May 9, 1968). He is an actuary, a public servant and a Mexican politician affiliated with the “Partido Acción Nacional (National Action Party, PAN").
He has been Secretary of State in two different occasions: he was Secretary of Social Development, and Finance Secretary, when he resigned to take part in the internal elections for the Presidency of Mexico for the PAN. Currently, he is the President of the Mexican Senate.
Ernesto Cordero was born in Mexico City on May 9, 1968. Son of Ernesto Cordero Galindo, a well-known Professor of Medicine in the “Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)”, and of Graciela Arroyo, a nurse who directed for two periods the “Escuela Nacional de Enfermeria y Obstetricia (National School of Infirmary and Obstetrics) of the UNAM. On May 16, 2006, Marta Sahagún de Fox inaugurated the Esplanade of the Distinguished Nurses and unveiled a bust in her honor at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health. He has a sister: Graciela Cordero Arroyo who is a pedagogue in the UNAM and has a Doctorate in Education by Barcelona’s University.
Cordero is married to Cristina Keller; he met her at the “Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)” when he was majoring in actuary and she was majoring in applied mathematics. They got married in 1994 and went to live to Philadelphia to finish their postgraduate studies. Cristina Keller has a Master’s degree in Architecture by the University of Pennsylvania and has never been a public servant.