Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León
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Zedillo in January 2013
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 54th President of Mexico |
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In office 1 December 1994 – 30 November 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Succeeded by | Vicente Fox |
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In office 7 January 1992 – 29 November 1993 |
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| President | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Preceded by | Manuel Bartlett |
| Succeeded by | Fernando Solana |
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In office 1 December 1988 – 7 January 1992 |
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| President | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Preceded by | Pedro Aspe |
| Succeeded by | Rogelio Gasca |
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Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León 27 December 1951 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | Institutional Revolutionary |
| Spouse(s) | Nilda Patricia Velasco |
| Children | Ernesto Zedillo Emiliano Zedillo Carlos Zedillo Patricia Zedillo Rodrigo Zedillo |
| Residence | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Alma mater |
National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) Yale University |
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Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (Spanish pronunciation: [erˈnesto seˈðiʝo]; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from 1 December 1994 to 30 November 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 70-year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Since the ending of his term as president in 2000, Zedillo has been a leading voice on globalization, especially its impact on relations between developed and developing nations.
He is currently Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University, is the Latin American co-chair of the Inter-American Dialogue, and is on the board of directors of Citigroup.
Ernesto Zedillo was born on 27 December 1951 in Mexico City. His parents were Rodolfo Zedillo Castillo, a mechanic, and Martha Alicia Ponce de León. Seeking better job and education opportunities for their children, his parents moved to Mexicali, Baja California.
In 1965, at the age of 14, he returned to Mexico City. In 1969 he entered the National Polytechnic Institute, financing his studies by working in the National Army and Navy Bank (later known as Banjército). He graduated as an economist in 1972 and began lecturing. It was among his first group of students that he met his wife, Nilda Patricia Velasco, with whom he has five children: Ernesto, Emiliano, Carlos (formerly married to conductor Alondra de la Parra), Nilda Patricia and Rodrigo.
In 1974, he pursued his master's and PhD studies at Yale University. His doctoral thesis was titled Mexico's Public External Debt: Recent History and Future Growth Related to Oil.
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