Georgina Kessel

Georgina Kessel Martínez is a Mexican economist. She is a former head of the Casa de Moneda de México (the Mexican mint) and the Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.

She was head of the Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos (Banobras)

Kessel attended the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) from 1975 to 1979 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics. A few years later she received a doctorate's degree in the same discipline from Columbia University, in the United States. Kessel worked for over nine years as a full-time professor at the ITAM, where she headed the Department of Economics in 1994. Amongst her former students is Felipe Calderon, who earned a master's degree in Economics under Kessel at ITAM. Calderon subsequently appointed her Minister of Energy after he was elected President of Mexico in 2006.

In the public sector Kessel has worked at the Energy Regulatory Commission, the Mexican mint (Casa de Moneda de México), Pemex and the Secretariat of Finance.

In 2005 she received the Premio al mérito profesional in the public sector, a recognition of the ITAM alumni.

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