Cabinet Profile: Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of the Economy
by Allan Wall
Marcelo Ebrard serves as Secretary of the Economy (Secretario de Economía) in the cabinet of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The official title of the department in Spanish is the Secretaría de Economía (SE), the Secretariat of the Economy. The person heading the department is the Secretario de Economía, the Secretary of the Economy.
So what is the difference between the Secretariat of the Economy and the Secretariat of the Treasury (Hacienda)?
Hacienda is the equivalent of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Hacienda is in charge of government finances, taxes and spending, and public debt.
The current Hacienda Secretary is Rogelio Ramirez de la O.
The Secretariat of the Economy is in charge of the administration, regulation, and promotion of industry, commerce, and the service sector. Its current secretary is Marcelo Ebrard.
Marcelo Ebrard was born in Mexico City in 1959. His parents were Marcelo Ebrard Maure (an architect) and Marcela Casaubon.
Both Ebrard and Casaubon are French surnames.
Marcelo Ebrard’s ancestors lived in a city in southeast France called Barcelonnette. For a century, from 1850 to 1950, there was a wave of emigration from Barcelonnette to Mexico. There is even a kind of house there known in French as a Maison Mexicaine (Mexican house). They were built by people from the community who had moved to Mexico and later returned to Barcelonnette from 1870 to 1930.
There were Barcelonnette natives who moved to Mexico and became citizens but returned to fight for France in World War I. A plaque in Barcelonnette honors ten of these returnees who died in the War.
As for Marcelo Ebrard, he studied in El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico, earning a bachelor’s in international relations. After that, he studied public administration and planning in France, at the École Nationale d’administration
Back in Mexico, Ebrard got involved in politics. Over the years he’s been a member of four political parties, the PRI, the Partido de Centro Democrático, the PRD and since 2018, Ebrard has been in MORENA, the party of AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum.
Ebrard’s wife is Rosalinda Bueso, former Honduran ambassador to Mexico and now a naturalized Mexican citizen.
From 1997 to 2000, Ebrard served in the Mexican Congress. From 2002 to 2004 he was Mexico City’s Secretary of Public Security, the Police Chief.
From 2006 to 2012, Ebrard was the Mayor (Jefe de Gobierno) of Mexico City. Serving in this position is what really raised his political profile. In 2010 Ebrard was awarded the World Mayor Prize by the City Mayors Foundation.
In 2012, Ebrard ran to be the presidential candidate of the PRD but was defeated by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), who went on to lose the general election (but won in 2018).
AMLO named Ebrard as Foreign Minister, a post that Ebrard held from 2018 to 2023.
Source: Twitter
Ebrard ran again for president, this time as part of the MORENA party, but was defeated in the party by Claudia Sheinbaum, who went on to win the presidency in 2024.
But all was not lost. Sheinbaum asked Ebrard to be Secretary of the Economy, a post he assumed on October 1st, 2024, the day of Sheinbaum’s inauguration.
by Allan Wall for Mexico News Report
Source: Mexico News Report
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