José Antonio Meade Kuribreña

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Meade and the second or maternal family name is Kuribreña.

José Antonio Meade Kuribreña


Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 September 2016
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Luis Videgaray Caso
In office 7 January 2011 – 30 November 2012
President	Felipe Calderón
Preceded by	Ernesto Cordero Arroyo
Succeeded by	Luis Videgaray Caso
Secretary of Social Development
In office 27 August 2015 – 6 September 2016
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Rosario Robles
Succeeded by	Luis Enrique Miranda
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
In office 1 December 2012 – 26 August 2015
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Patricia Espinosa
Succeeded by	Claudia Ruiz Massieu
Secretary of Energy
In office 7 January 2011 – 9 September 2011
President	Felipe Calderón
Preceded by	Georgina Kessel
Succeeded by	Jordy Herrera Flores
Personal details
Born	José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (1969-02-27) 27 February 1969 Mexico City, Mexico
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology National Autonomous University of Mexico Yale University
Website	Government website

Meade (right) with John Kerry and John Baird

José Antonio Meade Kuribreña is a Mexican politician, economist, lawyer and diplomat and current Mexican Secretary of Finance.

Biography

The Secretary is the son of Dionisio Meade y Garcia de Leon^[1]^[2] and his wife, daughter of the lawyer and sculptor José Kuri Breña.^[3] The Meade Kuribreña family is a Mexican family of Irish^[4] and Lebanese^[5] descent. Meade served as Secretary of Energy (7 January to 9 September 2011),^[6] then as Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón (9 September 2011 to 30 November 2012).^[7]

On December 1, 2012, Meade was named the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto. In August 2015, he became the Secretary for Social Development.

In February 2016, the League of United Latin American Citizens Council No. 12 in Laredo, Texas, announced that Meade and George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner, would both receive the titles of "Señor Internacional," a designation used since 1976 to honor distinguished figures in the border region as part of the annual Washington's Birthday Celebration.^[8]

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Political offices
Preceded by Jordy Herrera Flores	Secretary of Energy 2011	Succeeded by Georgina Kessel
Preceded by Ernesto Cordero Arroyo	Secretary of Finance and Public Credit 2011–2012	Succeeded by Luis Videgaray Caso
Preceded by Patricia Espinosa	Secretary of Foreign Affairs 2012–2015	Succeeded by Claudia Ruiz Massieu
Preceded by Rosario Robles	Secretary of Social Development 2015–2016	Succeeded by Luis Enrique Miranda
Preceded by Luis Videgaray Caso	Secretary of Finance and Public Credit 2016–present	Incumbent

Current Finance Ministers of the Group of 20

Prat-Gay Morrison Meirelles Morneau Xiao Moscovici Sapin Schäuble Jaitley Indrawati Padoan Asō Meade Siluanov Jadaan Gordhan Yoo Ağbal Hammond Lew

Current finance ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

Morrison Bolkiah Morneau Valdés Xiao Tsang Indrawati Asō Yoo Najib / Johari Meade Joyce (Acting) Marape Thorne Dominguez Siluanov Heng Sheu Tantivorawong Lew Dung

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