Josefina Vázquez Mota
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Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota (born January 20, 1961 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist and politician who served as Secretary of Social Development in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox.
[edit] Education and professional career
Vázquez Mota studied the bachelor in CECyT 9 of the IPN (National Polytechnic Institute ) and economics at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She has also pursued studies at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE).
The National Action Party (PAN) invited her to run for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for the 58th legislature, she won and served in the lower house of the Mexican Congress as the economics vice-coordinator of the PAN faction. In December 2000 President Vicente Fox designated her Secretary of Social Development, resigning to that position on January 2005. She moved on to become the coordinator of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa's campaign for the 2006 presidential elections. After her candidate won the presidential bid, she has been seen as the most likely new interior minister (secretario de gobernacion) of the Calderón government when he takes office in December 2006.
| Preceded by: Carlos Jarque |
Secretary of Social Development December 2000–January 2005 |
Succeeded by: Ana Teresa Aranda |
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