Jorge Flores Kelly

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Flores and the second or maternal family name is Kelly.

Jorge Flores Kelly (born 15 January 1969) is a Mexican economist, business consultant, columnist, and author that has advised several Mexican and multinational blue-chip companies mainly in issues related to strategy, organization, and economics. He started his career as business consultant for Arthur D. Little and later created his own consulting firm, Aporta.

Flores Kelly has an Economics bachelor's degree in the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, (ITAM). He graduated in 1995 with the thesis "Bioeconomic Analysis for the Sequential Shrimp Fishery in the Mexican Pacific Ocean. He was distinguished in 1996 with the first place in the prestigious Banamex Economics Award. In 2000 he got his MSc. in Financial and Business Economics specializing in International Economics at the University of Essex with the thesis “Capital Account Liberalisation, Self-fulfilling Crises and its impact on Firms Balance Sheets”.

Amidst the 2008 violence escalation, the human flu pandemic, the global financial crises, and the subsequent impact of these events on Mexico's international image he created a social media Project –ElCatalista or TheCatalist- to restore Mexico's image through the development of high quality empowering news based on an interdisciplinary analysis of facts, figures, and data that provide evidence to support an unbiased portrait and depict to public eye the major improvements in Mexico in the recent years in areas such as economics, society, gender, industry, environment, culture, among others.

Later he authored Mexico Piensa+ (Mexico thinks positive) or México Piensa Más, a book that sustains there is a perennial negative gap between Mexico's performance in hard data and public perceptioncreated by a quasi idiosyncratic disempowering context or underlying point of view from which Mexicans portray themselves and present to foreigners creating a vicious cycle. This creates a persistent negative conversation that lowers Mexico's positioning as emergent economic power. It negatively impacts business opportunities, touristic attractiveness, and the general image Mexican's have of themselves and what is perceived to the international community. This is done by propagating various negative stereotypes.Flores Kelly has openly talked about the need for a heterodox intervention to restore Mexico's conversation that involves not only expectations management and country branding, but also creating a complete new empowering conversation for Mexicans based on hard data and facts as an anchor for reality.

He has two children and has Mexican, Spanish, and Irish descent.