Rogelio Ramírez de la O

Rogelio Ramírez de la O is an economist based in Mexico City. He is Director and sole partner of Ecanal S.A., a private company which provides macroeconomic analysis and forecasts on Mexico to business, including some of the largest multinational companies with interests in Mexico. During 2006 he headed on an honorary basis the economic policy team of presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, backed by a coalition of parties including the PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution). Ramírez de la O received a bachelor's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an Economics PhD from Cambridge University, United Kingdom. He has published works in Mexico, the United States and Europe on NAFTA, Mexico’s macroeconomic problems and the Mexican auto industry, among others. In the frame of the 2012 precampaign for presidential elections, Andrés Manuel López Obrador included him as Economy Minister in his cabinet proposal, but the party did not win the elections.