Eduardo Sojo
Public Sector Advisor
Government of México
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Eduardo Sojos' professional life has moved back and forth between two major areas: civil service and academia.
In the Federal Public Administration he has held the position of Technical Director and Short-Term Statistics Director of INEGI (National Geography and Statistics Institute). From 1979 to 1982 he performed a variety of activities as an analyst in the General Economic and Social Policy Bureau.
At the state level, he was Coordinator of the Guanajuato State Government Economic Cabinet during the administration of Mr. Vicente Fox Quesada, and in that capacity was in charge of economic policy design, planning and evaluation.
During Mr. Fox's electoral campaign he was the Advisors Coordinator, and later the President Elect's Transition Team Economic Coordinator.
In the course of his academic pursuits, Mr. Sojo has been a full time researcher and professor of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies, at the Leon campus, and co-author of the Guanajuato, Century XXI Study. He worked as a research analyst on the Pennsylvania University Link Project.
In addition to his articles in various periodicals and reviews, he has also published, with Lawrence Klein, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, his research on combined time series and econometric modeling.
He studied economics at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies, and later earned a Master's Degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Finance and Industrial Organization at the University of Pennsylvania.
Eduardo Sojo was born in León, Guanajuato, on January 9, 1956
