Carlos Jarque
Carlos M. Jarque Uribe (born October 18, 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist, currently Executive Director of América Móvil and Board Member of the Leading Global Group in Citizen Services FCC (Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas).
His econometric tests for Normality, Homoscedasticity, Serial Independence and Specification of Models are in textbooks, are taught in multiple university careers and they are incorporated in many computer programs.
He was secretary of the National Development Plan of Mexico for the period 1995–2000, made through a broad public consultation and which constituted the Government Program of President Ernesto Zedillo.
In this position he directed a wide range of social programs (including those for poverty alleviation) and the initiatives for housing, microcredit, urban and regional development and territorial planning, managing budget lines of support to States and Municipalities.
As secretary he oversaw the approval of all operations of the IDB, including 11 billion dollars a year in loans, the 70% increase in the Bank's capital, and its realignment and restructuring program.
During his tenure and with an efficient team, the development cooperation resources mobilized from Europe to the Latin American and Caribbean region through the IDB were multiplied by a factor of 20.
He established the Permanent Secretariat of the European Union-LAC Business Summits and the IDB Office for Europe in Madrid, inaugurated by the President of Spain.
FCC is the parent company of one of the first and most important global Citizen Services groups that contributes to the welfare and sustainable progress of society.
Jarque has been president of the United Nations Statistical Commission, a global authority for the definition, approval and implementation of Methodologies to measure the economic phenomena (GDP, trade balance, capital account) and the social spheres (poverty, migration, education, employment, mortality).
He has also been a member of the “Consejo Superior” of the Network of Anahuac Universities, and of the board of directors of the National Institute of Public Administration of Mexico.
He has received the Honoris Causa Doctorate from Anahuac University; the Adolphe Quetelet Medal from the World Academy of Statisticians; the Henri Willem Methorst Medal; the Benito Juárez Medal (given by the president of Mexico); the Mahalanobis Prize (world distinction in the field of Statistics); Prize "Ricardo Flores Magón" for support to Freedom of the Press and of Expression; Prize 2017 Master of GOLD of the Royal Forum of Top Business Executives (forum that includes high executives of Ibero America, President of Honor King D. Juan Carlos I of Spain).
