Luis Manuel Enrique Téllez Kuenzler (born October 13, 1958) is a Mexican economist.
[1] Téllez graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) with a bachelor's degree in Economics (summa cum laude) took post graduate studies in law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received a doctorate's degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
When the PRI lost the Mexican presidency in 2000, Téllez joined the private sector as Executive Vice President and CEO of DESC, S.A. de C.V. Later on he joined The Carlyle Group as Managing Director, focusing on buyout investment opportunities in Mexico.
[3] On November 21, 2006, President-elect Felipe Calderón announced he will serve as his Secretary of Communications and Transportation starting on December 1, 2006.
[3] On February 2, radio host Carmen Aristegui interviewed Diana Pando, an ex-friend of Dr. Luis Tellez who claimed and presented a revealing audio inbox cell phone recording left by mistake by Luis Tellez in his cellular phone where he clearly says to some friends with him: "Salinas se robó la mitad de la cuenta secreta" (Salinas stole half of the secret account) supposedly talking about a secret account in the Mexican federal budget which consisted in thousands of millions of pesos (about hundreds of millions of US dollars) creating a scandal and calls for Tellez' resignation [1].