Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit
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The Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público or SHCP) is Mexico's finance ministry
Finance minister
The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances...

. The Secretary of Finance and Public Credit is a member of the federal executive cabinet
Mexican Executive Cabinet
The cabinet of Mexico is the Executive Cabinet and is a part of the executive branch of the Mexican government. It consists of eighteen Secretaries of State, the head of the federal executive legal office and the Attorney General....

 and is appointed by the President of the Republic
President of Mexico
The President of the United Mexican States is the head of state and government of Mexico. Under the Constitution, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces...

.

In Mexico the Secretary of Finance is the head of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit. This position is analogous to the Secretary of the Treasury
United States Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

 in the United States of America or to the finance minister
Finance minister
The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances...

s of other nations.

The Secretary of Finance is Ernesto J. Cordero replacing Agustín Carstens Carstens who started as the Secretary at the beginning of Felipe Calderón
Felipe Calderón
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for a single six-year term through 2012...

's presidency.

Secretaries of Finance and Public Credit since 1893

  • José Yves Limantour
    José Yves Limantour
    José Yves Limantour was a Mexican politician, Secretary of the Finance of Mexico from 1893 until the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime in 1911.José Yves Limantour was the illegitimate son of Joseph Yves Limantour....

     1893–1911
  • Rafael Nieto 1917–1919
  • Luis Cabrera Lobato
    Luis Cabrera Lobato
    Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato was a Mexican lawyer, politician and writer. His pen name for his political essays was "Lic...

     1919–1920
  • Salvador Alvarado Rubio 1920
  • Adolfo de la Huerta
    Adolfo de la Huerta
    Felipe Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor was a Mexican politician and interim President of Mexico from June 1 to December 1, 1920....

     1920–1923
  • Alberto J. Pani 1923–1927
  • Luis Montes de Oca 1927–1932
  • Alberto J. Pani 1932–1933
  • Plutarco Elías Calles
    Plutarco Elías Calles
    Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato...

     1933–1934
  • Marte R. Gómez 1934
  • Narciso Bassols
    Narciso Bassols
    Narciso Bassols García was a Mexican lawyer, socialist politician, ambassador to France, Russia, and the United Kingdom, and professor of law at the National University of Mexico. He co-founded the Popular Party , and the League of Political Action...

     1934–1935
  • Eduardo Suárez 1935–1946
  • Ramón Beteta 1946–1952
  • Antonio Carrillo Flores
    Antonio Carrillo Flores
    Antonio Carrillo Flores was a Mexican statesman, born in Mexico City. He was the second son of composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo....

     1952–1958
  • Antonio Ortiz Mena
    Antonio Ortiz Mena
    Antonio Ortiz Mena was a Mexican economist who served as President of the Inter-American Development Bank and as Mexico's Secretary of Finance during the administrations of Adolfo López Mateos and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz .According to Pedro Aspe —who served as Secretary of Finance almost two decades...

     1958–1970
  • Hugo B. Margáin
    Hugo B. Margáin
    Hugo B. Margáin Gleason was a Mexican economist, politician and diplomat who served as Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of Luis Echeverría , as ambassador of Mexico to the United States , as ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom and as senator representing the Institutional Revolutionary...

     1970–1973
  • José López Portillo
    José López Portillo
    José López Portillo y Pacheco was the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.Born in Mexico City, López Portillo studied Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before beginning his political career with the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1959.He held several positions in the...

     1973–1975
  • Mario Ramón Beteta
    Mario Ramón Beteta
    Mario Ramón Beteta Monsalve was a Mexican economist who served as the last Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Luis Echeverría , as director-general of Pemex and as governor of the State of México .Beteta was born in Mexico City into a family led by General Ignacio Beteta, a...

     1975–1976
  • Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma
    Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma
    Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma Cid was a Mexican lawyer who served as the first Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President José López Portillo, as director-general of Pemex and as director-general of the now extinct Somex bank .Moctezuma was born in Mexico City into a family composed by Alberto...

     1976–1977
  • David Ibarra Muñoz
    David Ibarra Muñoz
    David Ibarra Muñoz is a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance during most of José López Portillo's administration...

     1977–1982
  • Jesús Silva Herzog
    Jesús Silva Herzog
    Jesús Silva Herzog Flores is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party...

     1982–1986
  • Gustavo Petricioli
    Gustavo Petricioli
    Gustavo Petricioli Iturbide was a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance in the last cabinet of Miguel de la Madrid and as Mexican ambassador to the United States ....

     1986–1988
  • Pedro Aspe
    Pedro Aspe
    Pedro Carlos Aspe Armella is a Mexican economist. He served as secretary of finance in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, where he successfully renegotiated foreign debt, gave autonomy to the central bank and promoted a controversial privatization plan.Aspe Armella is the son of Pedro Aspe...

     1988–1994
  • Jaime Serra Puche
    Jaime Serra Puche
    Jaime José Serra Puche is a Mexican economist. He is Chairman of SAI Consulting and Principal of NAFTA Fund...

     1994
  • Guillermo Ortiz Martínez 1994–1998
  • José Ángel Gurría
    José Ángel Gurría
    José Ángel Gurría Treviño is a Mexican economist and diplomat. He is the current secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development since June 1, 2006....

     1998–2000
  • Francisco Gil Díaz
    Francisco Gil Díaz
    Francisco Gil Díaz is a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox and currently serves as regional chairman of Telefónica for Mexico and Central America....

     2000–2006
  • Agustín Carstens
    Agustín Carstens
    Agustín Guillermo Carstens Carstens is a Mexican economist who has served as Governor of the Bank of Mexico since and was recently seeking to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the International Monetary Fund...

     2006–2009
  • Ernesto J. Cordero (Incumbent since 9 December 2009)

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