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Josefina Vázquez Mota
Josefina Vázquez Mota
Preceded by Carlos Jarque Preceded by Reyes Tamez Secretary of Social Development December 2000–January 2005 Secretary of Education December 2006– April 2009 Succeeded by Ana Teresa Aranda Succeeded by Alonso Lujambio
Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota (born January 20, 1961, in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist and politician who was recently appointed as Secretary of Education by President Felipe Calderón. Previously, she served for five years as Secretary of Social Development under Vicente Fox’s administration, which she left to become campaign coordinator of Calderon’s bid for the presidency.
Education and professional career
Vázquez Mota studied the thecnical Bachelor in CECyT 9 of IPN, she also studied economics at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She 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 Congress as the economics vice-coordinator of the PAN faction. In December 2000 President Vicente Fox designated her Secretary of Social
Development, where she served until 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 was seen as a likely new interior minister (Secretario de Gobernación) of the Calderón government but she was instead appointed as new education minister (Secretario de Educación Pública) starting December 1, 2006, and finishing on April 4, 2009, when she quit the post in order to pursue a candidacy for a place in the Chamber of Deputies for the 2009 Federal Elections.
Family
Josefina Vázquez Mota is married to Sergio Ocampo Muñoz an information science graduate and has three daughters: María José, Celia María and Montserrat of ages 21, 18 and 14, respectively.
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