One day after taking office as president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, appointed Edgar Abraham Amador Zamora as undersecretary of Finance and Public Credit.
This following the news that Gabriel Yorio was resigning from the position to seek a position at the International Development Bank (IDB), after five years as Undersecretary of the Treasury.
President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters: “we are going to inform who the team is.” And then she agreed when asked if Yorio was leaving office: “he wants to occupy an international space. It’s his decision,” she said.
Who is Edgar Amador Zamora, new Undersecretary of the Treasury?
Edgar Abraham Amador Zamora, originally from Monclova, Coahuila, is an economist who graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and has a Master’s degree in the same field from the College of Mexico. His most recent position is as advisor to the governor of Banco de la México, Victoria Rodríguez Ceja.
The Graduate in Economics has a solid career in the public and private spheres: he was head of the Ministry of Finance of Mexico City, in the government of Miguel Ángel Mancera between 2012 and 2018.
During this period he participated in different financial projects of great relevance, including the financing of urban toll highways, the acquisition of 40 trains for line 2 of the metro, and the structure of financing schemes for penitentiary centers.
Likewise, he has held positions in the private sector and in various organizations, one of them in the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) as a researcher in 2022.
During his career as Secretary of Finance, Edgar Amador focused on public resources; his most notable achievements were the modernization of the local tax system and tax collection, as well as the promotion of infrastructure projects through innovative financing models.
His experience led him to be nominated as the best Economist in Latin America by the prestigious Institutional Investor of New York, in 1998, which received recognition for his analytical capacity and strategic vision.
