Eugenio Madero Pinson
Independent Member

Mr. Eugenio Madero is Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Rassini, where he has more than 30 years of experience. He previously began his professional career at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Rassini, Fundación México en Harvard, and the Dean’s Council of the Kennedy School of Government, as well as the Advisory Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, all at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). He is also a member of the Consejo Mexicano de Negocios (CMN), the Consejo de Empresarios of Universidad Panamericana-IPADE, the Board of Trustees of the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), and the International Board of Trustees of the Museo del Prado in Madrid. In 2019, he received the National Communication Award “José Pagés Llergo” in the “Industry and Business” category for his contributions to the automotive industry, and in that same year, he was recognized by the Embassy of Canada for his outstanding contribution to Mexico–Canada relations.

Valeria Moy Campos
Independent Member

Valeria Moy is Chief Executive Officer of IMCO (Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad), a research center focused on economic and social issues. Her research lines focus on competitiveness indices, energy, trade, women’s participation in the economy, and education. She holds a degree in Economics from ITAM and a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. In academia, she has taught macroeconomics at ITAM since 2001; she was a Senior Researcher for Harvard Business School and previously led a research center specialized in economic variables. She is currently a weekly opinion columnist for El Universal and El País and participates as an analyst in various media outlets. She serves as an independent board member of BBVA, the largest bank in Mexico, and participates in the boards of the financial group; she is also a member of the Advisory Board of Laureate Education Group, which owns a broad network of universities in Mexico and Peru. She is an economic analyst on the radio program Así las Cosas con Loret on W Radio and, through her weekly podcast Peras y Manzanas, explains economic topics in a simple manner; it is one of the most listened-to podcasts in the country. Forbes has recognized her as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Mexico and as one of “The 300 Leaders.”

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.