Jesús Seade
Jesús Seade Kuri (Mexico City, 24 December 1946) is an economist, diplomat and politician with a long history of trade negotiations and management of international financial crises. He is, since December 1, 2018, Undersecretary for North America in Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE). On June 8, 2020, Dr. Seade was officially nominated by the Mexican government for General Director of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Taking into account his professional career in the field of international trade, in March 2018 he was invited by the then presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador as his representative in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), when the negotiation was in charge of Enrique Peña Nieto´s government. When he became part of the transitional team of President-elect López Obrador, he made a significant contribution to unlock the negotiation and successfully conclude a new trade agreement, fair and beneficial to his country, which would strengthen collaboration through a framework of mutual respect between the countries involved.

A Mexican and Lebanese national, Ambassador Seade has lived for extended periods of time in Great Britain, Switzerland, USA, Hong Kong SAR, the People's Republic of China and its native Mexico, plus a year between France and Brazil, and he has worked closely with local officials and authorities in more than 70 countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia (including China), Europe, the Middle East and North America. A prominent part of his career has been in high-level positions in the three main international economic organizations: the World Bank (WB) where, being really young, he became responsible for economic work on Brazil; the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in which he handled the massive debt forgiveness of 15 African countries and led the work on the serious financial crises in Turkey, Brazil and Argentina; and the World Trade Organization (WTO), in whose creation he was a prominent negotiator and then a facilitator of consensus towards the completion of the difficult agreement that established it, and of which he was Deputy Director-General. He was nominated as a candidate for Director General of the WTO in 2020, but his nomination was not taken forward into the second round.
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