A couple of months ago I ran a cabinet profile of Rogelio Ramirez de la O, Secretary of Treasury in the cabinet of President Claudia Sheinbaum. (See Cabinet Profile: Rogelio Ramirez de la O, Secretary of the Treasury).
Ramirez de la O was serving as Secretary of the Treasury under previous president AMLO since 2021, and agreed to stay on in the same post in the administration of Claudia Sheinbaum, which began October 1st, 2024.
The official title of the department in Spanish is Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, the Secretariat of the Treasury and Public Credit, commonly referred to as Hacienda. Or it can be referred to by its initials SHCP.
The headquarters of the Hacienda department is in the Palacio Nacional, which you can see at the top of this page.
The head of that bureau’s title is Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público. The U.S. equivalent would be the Secretary of the Treasury. The Mexican official can also be referred to in English as Secretary of Finance or Minister of Finance.
On March 7th, Rogelio Ramirez de la O stepped down as Treasury Secretary and has been replaced by Edgar Amador Zamora.
Amador was born in northern Mexico in Monclova, Coahuila.
Amador studied at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), earning a bachelor’s in economics. Then he earned his master’s in economics at El Colegio de México (COLMEX). Both institutions are in Mexico City.
From 2012 to 2018, Amador was Treasury Secretary of Mexico City.
In the Claudia Sheinbaum presidential administration he was serving as undersecretary. Now Amador is the Secretary of the Treasury, a cabinet position.
As for Rogelio Ramirez de la O, he was asked to serve the administration as an international economic advisor, and has accepted that request.
