Francisco Gil Díaz
Independent Member

President of Telefónica México, a global telecommunications company, Avancia, a real-estate subsidiary of ACS , and head of Avantel, a Mexican telecommunications company. Mr. Gil Díaz has held several key positions in the Mexican public sector, including Minister of Finance and member of the Board of Governors of Banco de México. In 2005 he was recognized as “Finance Minister of the Year for the Americas” by The Banker (a publication of Financial Times). He is chairman of the advisory council of EXI, a Mexican infrastructure company. He has been a lecturer at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he is Professor Emeritus and was awarded an honorary doctorate; at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Colegio de México, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

José Antonio Chedraui Obeso
Independent Member

A Mexican businessman who since 1965 has held the position of Managing Director, and since 1988 Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Comercial Chedraui. He has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Supermarkets and Department Stores (ANTAD). Over the course of his business career he has been a board member of various banking and financial institutions, including Banamex, Banco BCH, Bancomer, Banca Serfin, Banco de Oriente, Operadora de Bolsa and Grupo Financiero Inbursa. He is currently a board member of several private companies. Mr. Chedraui studied Business Administration at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), rounding out his business training with various executive development programs, particularly High-Level Management at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas, Liderazgo y Productividad at Colegio de Graduados.

Pilar María Aguilar Pariente
Independent Member

Pilar Aguilar Pariente is independent board member and investor in high-growth companies. She sits on the board as an independent member of other public and private firms in Mexico. In the venture capital field she has been angel investor and member of various investment committees. She began her career in consulting, working at McKinsey & Company as project partner for the Mexican and Brazilian energy and transportation industries, and for Bain and Company as Talent Development Director. Between 2011 and 2016 she directed Endeavor México, an organization focused on promoting the growth of the Mexican economy through the support of high-impact entrepreneurs. She has co-authored four books on entrepreneurs, The new face of Mexico, and worked with IPADE on a book entitled “Doing well and doing good.” She has been a speaker and panelist at the Women’s Forum Global Meeting and TEDx, among others. Since 2018 she has been a member of the jury for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Mexico. Ms. Aguilar holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Texas at Austin.

Pedro Carlos Aspe Armellae
Independent Member

Pedro Aspe, born in Mexico City in 1950, obtained his B.A. in Economics from ITAM (1974) and with the support of the Fulbright and CONACYT scholarships, his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT (1978) in the United States. Dr. Aspe developed his professional career during the last four decades in the academia, in the Federal Government and in the domestic and foreign private sectors. In the Mexican academic sector, he was Dean of the Department of Economics (1978) and founder of the master's program in Economics at ITAM (1980), where he has been a Professor in the decades that followed. In the Mexican public sector, was founder and President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI, 1983) then being appointed as Deputy-Secretary and then as Secretary of the Budget (1987), to finally be named Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. During those years he participated in the first structural reforms of modern Mexico: the participation of Mexico in GATT and the OECD, the budgetary equilibrium, the Re-negotiation of Mexico’s External Debt, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the autonomy of the Mexican Central Bank (1994). In the private sector Dr. Aspe was founder of Protego, one of the first Mexican investment banks (1996), company that a decade later was combined with Evercore Partners by doing an IPO in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Dr. Aspe was named Co-Chairman of Evercore Partners, company with operations in New York, London and Mexico City (2006). In February, 2017 Dr. Aspe retired from Evercore Partners. Dr. Aspe currently participates as Chairman of CINUK. He is also a Founding Member of the North American Forum and is a member of the Board of the Epic-Lab and Beristain’s Scholarship at ITAM and of the Museum of Memory and Tolerance in Mexico City.