By Allan Wall
Rogelio Ramirez de la O serves as Treasury Secretary in the cabinet of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The official title of the department in Spanish is Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, the Secretariat of the Treasury and Public Credit, commonly referred to as Hacienda. Or it can be referred to by its initials SHCP.
The headquarters of the Hacienda department is in the Palacio Nacional, which you can see at the top of this page.
The head of that bureau’s title is Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público. The U.S. equivalent would be the Secretary of the Treasury. The Mexican official can also referred to in English as Secretary of Finance or Minister of Finance.
Rogelio Ramirez de la O was born in Mexico in 1948.
Readers might be curious about this official’s maternal surname “De la O”, which literally means “from the O” or “of the O”. It appears to derive from the Spanish/Catalan name “Lao” which at some point was shortened to “O”.
Ramirez de la O studied economics at Mexico’s UNAM, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico). It’s currently the 15th biggest university of the world (by enrollment) and the largest in Latin America.
Later, Ramirez de la O went to England and studied at Cambridge University, where he received a PhD in Economics.
Ramirez de la O founded Ecanal S.A., a firm providing economic analysis and predictions to businesses including multinational corporations with investments in Mexico.
Rogelio Ramirez de la O has actually been serving as Treasury Secretary since 2021, during the term of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), the previous president, and he was asked to stay over in the Sheinbaum administration, which began October 1st, 2024.
By Allan Wall for Mexico News Report
Source: Mexico News Report
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