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...Ernesto Zedillo is a person of extraordinary leadership and intellect, both a statesman and a scholar,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said in a press release yesterday. “His embrace of democratic values and economic reforms had a profound effect on Mexico, and his thoughtful observations on globalization are timely and important...
...Zedillo currently teaches international economics and politics at Yale University, where he also serves as the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He was president of Mexico from 1994 until 2000, when his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) suffered the first electoral defeat in its history...
John H. Coatsworth, Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, called the selection of Zedillo “appropriate...
...Zedillo came to power one year after the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and oversaw much of the economic integration between the United States and Mexico. Coatsworth said Harvard’s selection of Zedillo is particularly significant now, as the two countries integrate even further and the world progresses towards a global economy...
...Zedillo attended public school and the School of Economics at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico, before heading to Yale for his doctorate in economics. He then spent ten years in economic posts in the Mexican government, eventually serving as the Secretary of Economic Programming and the Budget from...