Awardees

INAUGURATION - CHAPTER AGUASCALIENTES

BINATIONAL EVENT

Join us September 26-27, 2024, for a full agenda of activities to learn about business opportunities in Aguascalientes, and celebrate with us the re-launching of our Chapter in this thriving State.

The agenda includes:

· Swearing-in with the presence of the Governor of the State of Aguascalientes, María Teresa Jiménez

· Reception and dinner at Palacio de Gobierno with government and business leaders

· Visit to the National Institute for Statistics and Geography

· Visit to manufacturing plants of leading automotive and technology companies in the State

· Winery Tour

AGUASCALIENTES

AT GLANCE

· Population: 1,491, 126

· Main economic activities: manufacturing (vehicles and transportation equipment, electronic components and computer, metal mechanic) agriculture, mining, cattle

· State Police ranks 2nd as the most trusted in Mexico

· Ranks 4th in the generation of formal employment

· The World Bank has recognized Aguascalientes as the easiest state to do business in Mexico

Space is limited. To register and for more information, please contact Gabriela Kenny at gabriela.kenny@usmcoc.org

The Chamber presents the Good Neighbor Leadership Award for the public sector to Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture, Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula, and for the private sector to Francisco Cervantes Díaz, President of the Business Coordinating Council (Consejo Coordinador Empresarial-CCE).

PRIVATE SECTOR AWARD LEADERSHIP

Mr. Francisco Cervantes Díaz, Presidente, Consejo Coordinador Empresarial – CCE

Francisco Cervantes is President of the Business Coordinating Council for 2022-2023. Mexican businessman with over 28 years of experience in the plastics industry, stone materials, real estate, and agriculture, along with an active involvement as a business sector representative.

His professional career and business leadership has led him to chair, from 2018 to 2021, the Confederation of Industrial Chambers of the United Mexican States (Confederación de Cámaras Industriales de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos- CONCAMIN), promoting a new Industrial Policy, actively promoting the Oaxaca Pact and the 2030 Committee of Sustainable Industry.

PUBLIC SECTOR LEADERSHIP AWARD

Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula

Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula is Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development. An expert with over 40 years of experience in agronomy, agricultural economy, and environmental sciences. Villalobos holds an engineering degree in Agronomy from Mexico’s Agriculture School and an MSc in Plant Genetics from the Graduate College of Chapingo. He has a Ph.D. in Plant Morphogenesis from the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

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