Claudia Sheinbaum, virtual president-elect, announced that Raquel Buenrostro will be the new owner of the Secretariat of Public Function (SFP) in the next six-year term. Sheinbaum defined her as “an incorruptible woman, who has performed outstandingly wherever she has been.”
Currently, Raquel Buenrostro is Secretary of Economy, replacing Tatiana Clouthier. From January 2020 to October 2022, Buenrostro was head of the Tax Administration Service (SAT), where she set the main objectives: increasing collection efficiency, reducing tax evasion and avoidance, and combating corruption.
In 2019, Salvador Camarena, columnist of The financialdetailed that Raquel Buenrostro, as senior official of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), was one of the people who had accumulated the most power during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
AMLO commissioned him to centralize all government purchases to overcome some crises, such as the fuel supply crisis, in which Buenrostro was one of the three people in charge of buying pipes abroad, says the columnist.
Who is Raquel Buenrostro?
The Raquel Buenrostro’s career In public administration she has more than 25 years, where she has been Deputy General Director of Budgetary Control at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP); Manager of Planning and Development at Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), and Deputy Treasurer of Fiscal Policy; She held this last position in the Government of Mexico City.
The next head of the SFP studied a degree in Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she obtained the Gabino Barreda medal with the thesis “About the Miller-Teply theorem.”
Afterwards, he made the Master in Economics at the College of Mexico and graduated with the work “Behavior of the exchange rate within a band: analysis of the effects due to the intramarginal intervention of the Central Bank.”
At the academy, he has taught mathematics courses and economics at both UNAM and Colegio de México.
