Felipe Calderón, MPA Biography
- Title:
- President of the United States of Mexico
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should the Government Allow a Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants?"
- Reasoning:
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“PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON (MEXICO): …I don’t want to see Mexico as a permanent provider of workers to the United States. I want to build the conditions in Mexico to provide the opportunities here in our land…[I]n the future, I can imagine a Mexico with enough economic growth in order to provide for all of them, enough conditions for prosperity…
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): Do you still feel the fence is deplorable?
PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON (MEXICO): I think so, yes.”
Interview with Good Morning America, Anchor Diane Sawyer, Oct. 8, 2007
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- President of the United States of Mexico, 2006-present
- Former President and Member, National Action Party
- Secretary of Energy, 2003-2004
- President, Board of Political Coordination, 2002
- Federal Deputy, 58th Legislature, 2000
- Member, Municipal Assembly, Mexico City
- Vice President, Christian Democrat Organization of America (CDOA)
- Member, “World Leaders of the Future,” World Economic Forum, 1997-2000
- Former General Director, National Bank of Public Works and Services (BANOBRAS)
- Recipient, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Congressional Leadership Award from the Mexico-US Chamber of Commerce
- Recipient, Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Transformación (CANACINTRA) Eagle Award for Legislative Merit award from the National Chamber of the Manufacturing Industry
- Has written as an editorialist for Mexico’s main newspapers
- Education:
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- MPA, Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University
- Master’s degree, Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
- Bachelor’s degree, Law, Escuela Libre de Derecho
- Other:
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- Legal name: Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
- He is the son of Luis Calderón Vega, a school teacher who helped found the National Action Party in 1939
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