Herminio Blanco Mendoza

Herminio Blanco Mendoza

Mexico Deputy Chair, North America Group

Dr. Herminio Blanco Mendoza serves as Independent Director of the Fibra Uno Administracion SA de CV. He is President and CEO of Soluciones Estratégicas, a corporate Advisory specializing in international trade issues. He has extensive experience in the public sector and in international trade. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of IQOM Inteligencia Comercial, the only service in Mexico and Latin America of retail analysis day to day. He was Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development in the Zedillo administration and was the chief negotiator of the North American Free Trade Agreement during the Salinas administration. He held several key positions in committees and boards of companies such as CYDSA, Grupo Financiero Banorte, Bancomext, and Foreign Trade Bank of Latin America. He has academic experience from Rice University in Houston, and from El Colegio de México. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Technological Institute of Higher Studies of Monterrey and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Chicago.