CARLOS LOZANO DE LA TORRE: A short biography

The Governor of Aguascalientes, Carlos Lozano de la Torre was born on February 9, 1950. Is married to Blanca Rivera Rio de Lozano and is the father of three young students, Jose Carlos, Emma Daniela and Blanca.

Carlos Lozano has a graduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Monterrey. He has conducted studies on Industrial Planning and Development and New Towns in England, as a scholar of the Mexican government.

As part of his public career, has been Secretary for Economic Development in the periods 1974-1980, 1980-1986 and 1992-1998, when Aguascalientes became a major recipient of investment from Asia and Latin countries. In the period from 1992 to 1998, he was able to manage the arrival and success of 266 investment projects, amounting to almost 8 billion dollars that generated approximately 40,000 new jobs. He was also Secretary for Economic Development in the state of Zacatecas during the period 1998 to 2004.

Among the most important investments promoted during his tenure, the start of plant operations of NISSAN Aguascalientes in the late 80's was one of the biggest assessments. It was the beginning for the installation of more than 23 companies of suppliers of this japanese company and the arrival of U.S. investments such as Texas Instruments and Xerox, wich generated stability and growth for the city and the state of Aguascalientes.

Carlos Lozano was the architect of the arrival of more than 30 multinational corporations to Aguascalientes, highlighting including Texas Instruments, Calsonic, Flextronics, and a significant number of auto parts manufacturing plants.

For his strong record as an effective manager of large investments, Carlos Lozano de la Torre has been invited three times to the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland, to share the expertise during his tenure as Secretary of Economic Development.

As Senator of the Mexican Republic, at the LX and LXI Legislatures, he has received several awards for his work in management of financial resources for education and social projects and his economic proposals, among them, the  "Saturnino Herran Medal" awarded by the Autonomous University Foundation Aguascalientes, and the "Automotive Legislative Merit Award 2009" awarded by the Mexican Association of Automobile Dealers (AMDA).

He has participated in several international meetings for economic development, such as the World Economic Forum Summit, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Mexico Monetary Conference, in 1999, organized by the Lucas Alaman International Center for Economic Growth (CILAC), in the First International Forum on relations between Europe and Latin America in Biarritz, France (2000), in the Mexico Meeting for the World Economic Forum, in Cancun, Quintana Roo (2001), in the Multilateral Investment Forum of the Inter-American Development Bank Washington, DC., USA (2001), in the International Conference for Financial Education, in Washington DC, organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United States Treasury Department (2007). He has also been invited as a representative of the Senate by the Japan Government in 2009 and the Brazil Government in 2007, where he was able to know the experience of these countries in terms of clean, renewable energy and climate change prevention initiatives.

In July 2010 was elected as governor of Aguascalientes State, after getting together, beyond political ideologies, an alliance of several political parties to participate in these elections. This alliance was made by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the Green Ecological Party and New Alliance Party, becoming the current Governor for the period 2010-2016.