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Ernesto J. Cordero

Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo
President of the Senate of Mexico
Assumed office
September 1, 2012
Preceded by José Gonzalez Morfín
Senator of Mexico
Assumed office
September 1, 2012
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
In office
December 9, 2009 – September 9, 2011
Preceded by Agustin Carstens
Succeeded by José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
Secretary of Social Development
In office
January 15, 2008 – December 9, 2009
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.


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