Alberto Emiliano Cinta Martínez (born in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist, entrepreneur and politician who is a founder and became the first general secretary of the New Alliance Party (PANAL).
He studied economics at the ITAM in Mexico City, and holds two master's degrees from both the Ecole Nationale d'Administratuon (ENA, Paris) and Harvard (KSG, Massachusetts).
Since 2001 he is the founder and chairman of a leading Mexican hospitality group that operates more than fifty high-end restaurants, nightclubs, business clubs, and concert halls.
From 1994 to 1995 he pursued graduate studies at the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA) where he received a master's degree in public administration and political economy.
He has participated in academic publications such as "Towards Mexico's Democratization" (Routledge 1999) and "México Visión Global, la agenda para el siglo XXI" (Porrúa, 2006), among others.