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Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico
Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada designated Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, as head of the Mexican Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, on September 2, 2003.
He has a broad experience in public government. He was the first General Manager of the National Forest Commission, public institution decentralized of the federal government, since 2002.
From 1995 to 2001 he worked as Governor of the Mexican State of Jalisco. During his administration, he carried out an Integral Reform with three powers, municipal and electoral reform, achieving with it practically a new State Constitution.
Likewise, he started a Regionalization Program as strategy of supported, balanced and fair growth, to confront the problems and challenges of poverty and globalization, inequality and comparative advantage of the State.
He implemented a program of controlled vehicle fine tuning in the metropolitan zone of Guadalajara, which reduced air pollution to less than 100 imecas. Also he developed a program for forest resources conservation, which placed Jalisco as a pioneer at national level, regarding quality plants production.
From 1992 to 1994 he was a Municipal President of Guzmán City, Jalisco.
He has developed his political path inside the National Action Party, PAN, as member of the Executive National Committee, Secretary of Studies of the Managerial Municipal Committee in Guzmán City and as project leader he headed electoral internal and external processes, obtaining the following victories: two interiors, two exteriors, two locals and two federal.
The Secretary is an Industrial Engineer, graduated from the Technological Institute of Guzmán City, Jalisco. He has master’s degree in Planning of Companies and complete studies of PhD in Industrial Engineering by the Technical Superior School of Industrial Engineers of the Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
He was the Coordinator and Chief of Division of Advanced Studies in the Technological Institute of Guzmán City, Jalisco; he was professor of Economy, Finance, Administration and Industrial Engineering in the same institution and professor of Logistics for the master’s program degree in the University of Colima.
Mr. Cárdenas Jiménez was born on April 4, 1958, in Zapotlán el Grande, Jalisco. He is married with Mrs. Joann Novoa Mossberger and they have three children.
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