César Emiliano Hernández Ochoa

Mr. Hernandez led the Single Window for International Trade Project (Ventanilla Única de Comercio Exterior, VUCEM), together with Customs Mexico.

It was the first large project that constructed a single electronic system to process customs and foreign trade authorizations in Mexico.

Furthermore, he led the team that designed and implemented the first three long-term power auctions for renewable energy that resulted in some of the lowest solar and wind electricity prices in the world in 2016[10][11] and 2017.

The Ministry published the Policies and Strategies for the electrification of rural communities and marginalized urban areas (March 29, 2017), which contemplated two different alternatives for taking electricity service to Mexicans no previously attended: a) extending coverage of CFE's basic service to communities located at a distance 5 km or less from the electricity distribution grid, and b) installing off-grid systems.

[46] It organized, together with the Institute for Legal Research of UNAM, an International Seminar on Attorney-Client Privilege in Antitrust Investigations (May 30, 2018),[47] and published a recommendation to the Ministry of Communications and Transport to eliminate the exclusivity exercised by Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares (ASA), a government owned enterprise, in the services for storage, commercialization and retail of fuels for aircraft at national airports.

[48] Dr. Hernández left his position at COFECE on September 30, 2018, to become part of the Ministry of Economy transition team of President-elect López Obrador headed by future Secretary Graciela Márquez Colín; he was replaced by David Lamb de Valdés.

This implied starting the operation of the new better regulation programs and governance bodies mandated by the 2018 Law, which as per its Transitory Articles were due to be implemented in 2019.

[50] organized the installation and first session of the National Council on Better Regulation, The National Council on Better Regulation was installed on August 19, 2019, with the participation of, among others, the Secretary of Economy Graciela Márquez, the Secretary of Interior Olga Sánchez Cordero, the Mexico City Chief of Government Claudia Sheimbaum, and the Governor of the State of Yucatán Mauricio Vila.

Accordingly, Commissioner Hernández attended meetings of Local Better Regulation Councils and met with the Governors of the States of Campeche,[53] Chihuahua,[54] Colima,[55] Durango,[56] Guanajuato,[57] Jalisco,[58] Mexico,[59] Michoacán,[60] Querétaro,[61] San Luis Potosí,[62] Sonora,[63] Veracruz[64] and Yucatán.

[citation needed] It was presented by President Lopez Obrador and the National Commissioner of CONAMER on the Presidential Morning Press Conference of January 30, 2020.

[70] During his year-and-a-half tenure as National Commissioner for Better Regulation, CONAMER published several better regulation advocacy studies, including "Simplifying Construction Permits" (August 14, 2019, coedited with the Organization of American States),[71] "Actions to Simplify Administrative Procedures and Improve Regulations" (June 25, 2019),[72] "Towards Digital Justice: Evaluation of Technological Systems in Local Judicial Branches " (June 31, 2019, coedited with the National Commission of State Supreme Courts and Microsoft),[73] "Subnational Regulatory Agenda for the Commerce Sector" (November 22, 2019),[74] "Subnational Regulatory Agenda for the Cargo Trucking Sector" (November 22, 2019, coedited with the Federal Economic Competition Commission), and "Better Regulation Best Practices for Municipal Governments" (July 3, 2019, coedited with the Mexican Association of State Secretaries of the Economy),[75] "Oral Mercantile Trials.

His resignation was reported by The Wall Street Journal: "César Hernández, head of the commission on regulatory improvement and one of the architects of the power-sector overhaul that allowed foreign and private investment in the electricity market, resigned Friday after the Energy Ministry requested a waiver from the commission to publish the new rules without a public consultation.

"[78] It was also reported in the US State Department 2020 Investment Climate Statement for Mexico: "CONAMER's widely-respected director, Cesar Hernandez, resigned May 15.

"[79] Mexican political activist and academic John M. Ackerman celebrated: "César Hernández resignation is excellent news that shows we are moving in the right direction… Hérnandez was architect of the privatizing 2014 Energy Reform".

Previously, he received the Premio Ruta Hidalgo (1978), for elementary school students, from Mexico's Ministry of Education (SEP).