Aldo Flores-Quiroga took up post as IEF Secretary General in January 2012.

Before joining the IEF he served in the Mexican government as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Energy (2007-2011), and as Assistant Secretary for Bilateral Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2001-2005).

At the Ministry of Energy Dr. Flores-Quiroga was responsible for advising the Minister on foreign energy policy, establishing foreign energy policy guidelines, and promoting international energy cooperation. He also represented Mexico politically and diplomatically. This entailed, among other activities: participating in the boards, general conferences or annual meetings of international organisations or fora, such as the International Atomic Nuclear Agency (IAEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the International Energy Forum (IEF), the Latin American and Caribbean Energy Organization (OLADE), and the recently created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Dr. Flores-Quiroga also served as liaison between the Ministry of Energy and international organisations in which Mexico is not a member, such as OPEC and IEA; negotiating technical, scientific, and financial cooperation agreements; organising ministerial meetings, seminars, roundtables, and workshops; and representing the Ministry of Energy in Inter-Agency bodies, such as the Working Group on International Oil Trade.

Dr. Flores-Quiroga’s accomplishments in the international energy field include: Mexico’s incorporation into the International Partnership on Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC), the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCI), the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR), and its accession to (IRENA), where it is now a Board Member; concluding bilateral agreements and MOUs on technical and scientific cooperation with the United States and Canada, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Iceland, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, and Spain; facilitating various financial cooperation agreements with the World Bank, and the IDB to fund components of Mexico’s national energy efficiency programs; organizing high-profile international events, such as the 12th IEF Ministerial and 4th International Energy Business Forum (with the support of the IEF Secretariat, 2010), the meeting of the United Nations Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (2010), the Global Renewable Energy Forum (in cooperation with UNIDO, 2009), and the Africa-Latin America Ministerial Energy Conference (AFROLAC, 2008); chairing the Executive Board of the IEF (2008-2010) and the Steering Committee of OLADE (2010); and heading the delegation of Mexico’s energy sector at the COP-16 negotiations in Cancun, and at the High-Level Steering Group in charge of drafting the new Executive Charter of the IEF, both of them concluding with unprecedented agreements.

Dr. Flores-Quiroga and his team were recognised in 2006 with the National Award for Innovation in Public Administration, a distinction given by the Mexican Presidency, and with a special mention in the Annual Transparency Award of the Mexican National Institute of Public Administration, for their work in building an intelligent database for the analysis and management of international economic affairs.

Before joining the Mexican government he was Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and Economics of the Claremont Graduate University in California, where he taught courses in international political economy, comparative politics, economic theory, public policy, and economic development (1996-2001). He was also visiting professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute (ITAM) and Affiliate Professor at the Center for Economic Research and Education (CIDE), both in Mexico City.

Dr. Flores-Quiroga studied Economics at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, in Mexico (1989) and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science-International Political Economy, with majors in economic theory and international political economy, at the University of California, Los Angeles (1997).

His publications include “Competitive Regionalism and Mexico´s FTA Strategy,” in Mireya Solís, Barbara Stallings, and Saori Katada, eds., Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim. Palgrave McMillan, pp 139-160 (2009); The Political Economy of Dollarization in Mexico,” with Nancy Neimann Auerbach, in Tom Willet, Dominick Salvatore et al, eds., The Political Economy of Dollarization. Oxford University Press, pp 266-282 (2002); “Economic Crisis and the Mexican State: Toward a New Institutional Interpretation,” in Mexican Studies, 17, 1, Winter. pp. 1-17 (2001); “Mexico: Crises and the Political Economy of Sustained Economic Liberalization” in Shale Horowitz and Uk Heo, eds., The Political Economy of International Financial Crisis. Rowman and Littlefield, pp 179-198 (2001); Proteccionismo versus Librecambio: La Economía Política de la Protección Comercial en México, 1970-1994. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica (1989).

As Secretary General of the IEF Dr. Flores-Quiroga has featured in interviews on CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, and other media outlets.

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