Gustavo Petricioli

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Petricioli and the second or maternal family name is Iturbide.
Gustavo Petricioli
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
In office
17 June 1986 – 30 November 1988[1]
PresidentMiguel de la Madrid
Preceded byJesús Silva Herzog
Succeeded byPedro Aspe
Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
In office
17 January 1989 – 15 January 1993[2]
PresidentCarlos Salinas de Gortari
Preceded byJorge Espinoza de los Reyes[2]
Succeeded byJorge Mario Montaño[2]
Personal details
Born(1928-08-19)19 August 1928[1]
Mexico City
Died9 October 1998(1998-10-09) (aged 70) [3]
Mexico City
Political partyRevolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) [4]
Alma materITAM, Yale University

Gustavo Petricioli Iturbide (19 August 1928 – 9 October 1998) was a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance (1986–1988) in the last cabinet of Miguel de la Madrid and as Mexican ambassador to the United States (January 1989 – 1993).[3]

Biography

Petricioli was the son of Carlos Petricioli Alarcón and Ada Iturbide Preciat.[4] He received a high school diploma from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), a bachelor's degree in Economics from the ITAM (1952) and a master's degree in the same discipline from Yale University (1958).[1] He lectured on Monetary Theory at both ITAM and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and joined the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in 1952.[4]

Before joining the federal cabinet Petricioli served as undersecretary of Finance (1970–74), as deputy director of the Bank of Mexico (1975–1976), and as director-general of Nacional Financiera (1982–1986).[1] As secretary of Finance, he co-authored the Pact for Stability and Economic Growth (in Spanish: Pacto para la estabilidad y el crecimiento económico), a national strategy to control the fiscal deficit and inflation in coordination with the private sector.[4]

Petricioli died of a heart attack on 9 October 1998 at Los Angeles Hospital, in Mexico City.[3][4] He married Rosa Blanca Morales Murphy and they had two children: Gustavo and Ada. After their divorce, he remarried to Maria Luisa Castellón, mother of his next two children Hugo and Maria Luisa. Maria Luisa has two children now; Luisa and Mateo. In his honor, a remembrance book, El complejo arte de vivir: homenaje a Gustavo Petricioli, was published by Editorial Porrúa and a statue was erected at ITAM; his alma mater.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993 (3rd ed.). University of Texas Press. p. 557. ISBN 9780292711815. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
  2. ^ a b c "Diplomatic Representation for Mexico (United Mexican States)". U.S. Department of State. 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
  3. ^ a b c "Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexico's Ex-Envoy". New York Times. 1998-10-12. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
  4. ^ a b c d e Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano (in Spanish). Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1992. ISBN 968-820-177-4.
  5. ^ "Presentación del libro "El complejo arte de vivir. Homenaje a Gustavo Petricioli"" (in Spanish). Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. 2006-05-28. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2008-11-28.