Pedro Aspe
Trustee, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Pedro Aspe, is co-Chairman of Evercore Partners, a leading investment bank boutique in the USA, and CEO of Protego, headquartered in Mexico City. Since 1996 Protego has advised in more than 200 transactions, including private equity placements, mergers & acquisitions, project financing and municipal bonds. In 2006, Protego combined with Evercore Partners, based in New York. Dr. Aspe has been a professor of Economics at ITAM and has held a number of positions with the Mexican government: was founder of INEGI (National Bureau of Statistics), Secretary of Budget and Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico.

Dr. Aspe is a member of the Advisory Board of Stanford University’s Institute of International Studies and of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Economics of the MIT and member of the Board of CIDE.
Currently he is a director of the McGraw Hill Companies and The Carnegie Corporation (New York) and of Televisa (Mexico); and sits on the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer (Wilmington) and Endeavor (Mexico). He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of MG Capital (Monterrey). Since 2005 he has been the Chairman of Volaris in Mexico City.

Aspe holds a B.A. in economics from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Aspe joined the Corporation board in December 2004.