Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores, born as Jesús Silva y Flores[4] (8 May 1935 – 6 March 2017) was a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
[5] He served as secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1986), as ambassador to Spain (1991–1994)[3] and the United States (1995–1997),[1] and as secretary of Tourism (1994) in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
[1] He taught several courses in Economics at UNAM (1963–1969) and El Colegio de México (1964–1969); worked as an economist for the Inter-American Development Bank (1962–1963) and as director-general of the National Institute of Housing (INFONAVIT, 1972–1976) before joining the Bank of Mexico as director-general (1977–1978) and serving as undersecretary of Finance in the cabinet of José López Portillo (1979–1982).
[1] In 2000, he lost Mexico City's Head of Government election to Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
[6] He was married to María Teresa Márquez Diez-Canedo and is the father of three children: María Teresa, Eugenia and Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez.