Enrique Ochoa Reza

Enrique Ochoa Reza (Morelia, Michoacán; September 1, 1972) is an energy specialist, Ph.D. in Political Science and master's degrees from Columbia University, Lawyer from the UNAM and Economist from ITAM, professor and author.

[1] He is currently Global Industry Director: Energy, Utlities & Resources at IFS since july 2021; and Advisory Board Member at Corinex Communications since 2022.

[23] In September, 2016, after leaving CFE to become the President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he received 1 million 200 pesos (more or less 64 thousand American dollars in 2017) as settlement.

[26] In December 2012, he was appointed Undersecretary of Hydrocarbons in the Ministry of Energy of the Government of the Republic, where he led the technical group that redacted and drove the energetic opening of 2013.

According to the Information System on Parliamentary Interventions of the Mexican Congress,[31] Enrique Ochoa Reza is the 5th Congressman, out of 500, with the highest number of participations during the LXIV Legislature (2018 to 2021).

[36] He contended and voted against the Constitutional Reform Act about Unofficial Remand Prison because he considers it violates the fundamental right of presumption of innocence.

[38][39][40] Asserted the need to label resources specifically for the purchase and application of COVID-19 vaccines,[41][42] in order to guarantee their universal, free, timely and non-discriminatory access.

[46] He promoted the provision of greater resources to CFE, so that it could carry out the maintenance of generation plants and the existing electricity transmission network.

To attend children with deafness, in the discussion of the 2021 Expenditure Budget, he requested the allocation of additional resources for the ISSSTE, the IMSS and the Health Sector.

[51] He presented multiple technical arguments[52] against the Preferential Initiative to reform the Electricity Industry Law since it would affect the generation of renewable energy.

Likewise, the reform will affect public health due to the high emission of pollutants associated with the generation of electricity with fuel oil and diesel.

[60] He also presented, on behalf of the Congresswomen and Congressman of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, a dissenting vote against the Opinion of the Preferential Initiative.

[61] This was because it considered that Articles 25, 27 and 28 of the Constitution were violated according to the criteria expressed by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation when resolving Administrative Agreements on the central matter of the electric counter-reform.

[64][65][66] Finally, he requested the inclusion in the Debate Diary of the session of February 23, 2020, in which the Preferred Initiative was discussed, of the Financial Report for the fourth quarter of 2020 presented by CFE to the Mexican Stock Exchange.

In April 2021, Enrique Ochoa Reza presented arguments in the Federal Congress against unconstitutional reforms to the Hydrocarbons Act.

[68][69][70] These reforms limit free competition by affecting consumers and rescinding permits for the transport, storage and sale of hydrocarbons without due process of law.

Likewise, Ochoa Reza spoke out and voted against eliminating asymmetric regulation of the hydrocarbons sector and removing that power from the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE).

[80][81] From 2005 to 2012 he was part of the National Network in favour of Oral Trials and Due Legal Process; he was also a member of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue based at Columbia University.

[82] In 2015 he was appointed vice-president of the Latin American Business Council of The World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.

He has also been a National Political Councilor in two different occasions, from 2005 to 2006 and from 2013 up to now; Advisor Technical Secretary of Victor's Manuel Tinoco Rubí campaign to become the Governor of Michoacán in 1995.

[91] In his first 100 days as President of PRI, he visited the 32 States to talk to members and followers of PRI in order to drive the creation of the Anti-corruption Commission which was approved in October 2016;[92] this commission is in charge of reviewing the profiles of those who want to be candidates of The Party; and to follow up the resolutions of different Mexican Institutions in charge of Public Accountability or Acts of Corruption.

[95] He has written articles for the magazines Este País, Nexos, Letras Libres and El Mundo del Abogado; he is also the author and co-author of books and chapters published in México and the United States, including: He has also published OpEd's about natural gas and renewable energy in Reforma, El Norte and Mural newspapers.