Mr. Zermeño is a businessman from Coahuila that has had a brilliant career in politics with the PAN or Partido de Accion Nacional in Mexico. Mr. Zermeño, a lawyer from the Universidad Iberoamericana, was Municipal President of Torreon from 1997 to 1999 and ran for governor of Coahuila during the 2005 elections. He was also a Senator of the Republic from 1991 to 1994.  

During the conference, Ambassador Zermeño opened up addressing recent situations and perspectives of the Mexican economy. In his presentation he focused on three main pillars: Economic results, Pending agreements & Perspectives of joint opportunities of international commerce with Spain. He praised Mexico´s low rate of inflation as well as the countries low risk level, further promoting foreign investment. He also discussed Mexico´s Financial status and Public Institutions; supported with GDP figures and Per-Capita wages from 2002 till 2008. 

An interesting topic Ambassador Zermeño covered, were the different treaties Mexico was active in. From the TLCAN (NAFTA) with the U.S. and Canada to the EU-Mexico free trade agreement, Mexico has trade negotiations with over 44 countries through 12 different treaties. Mexican Exports have nearly doubled since 2000, with industries such as Petroleum/Petrochemical, Automotive and Aerospatiale growing tremendously in the recent decade. As for Mexico´s direct foreign investment, from the period of 1994-2006 Spain represents 8.7% of the total 

foreign investments of our country. Spanish investment in Mexico is mostly related to both Manufacturing and Financial services. For further information, please look into Ambassador Zermeño´s presentation which will be posted in Club IE Mexico´s link. 

Club IE MEXICO wants to personally thank every participant for their interest and for making the Q&A session that was held after the conference such a success. We also would like to extend our appreciation to Professor Gonzalo Garland, who actively participated as moderator during the conference and made an array of interesting comments to the Ambassador while he presented Mexico's economical results.