Dr Juan Jose Suarez Coppel has experience in the energy and resources sectors and was previously chief financial officer & chief executive of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) and a senior executive with Grupo Modelo. During the 1990s, Dr Coppel was the chief of staff to the Minister of Finance Mexico, a senior executive with Banamex (now CITI), and head of corporate finance & treasurer of Grupo Televisa, Mexico. During the 1980s, he held various academic roles including as a full-time professor in the ITAM Department of Economics, visiting professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Department of Economics, and Associate Professor at Brown University in Rhode Island. Dr Coppel has a PhD in Economics from Chicago University.