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Jesús Seade

Jesús Seade Kuri (born December 24, 1946, in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist, diplomat, and politician whose career has included roles in international trade negotiations and work on financial and debt crises at multilateral institutions. Since December 1, 2018, he has served as Undersecretary for North America in Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE).

In March 2018, then-presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked Seade to act as his representative in the ongoing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations being conducted by the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto. As a member of President-elect López Obrador’s transition team, Seade participated in the final stages of the renegotiation of NAFTA, which resulted in the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA/T-MEC/CUSMA).

A dual citizen of Mexico and Lebanon, Seade has lived for extended periods in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States, Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, and Mexico, as well as spending a year divided between France and Brazil. He has worked closely with officials and authorities from more than 70 countries across Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

At the World Bank (WB), Seade worked on fiscal policy and later served as chief economist for the Brazil department. At the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he managed major debt relief for 15 African countries and led efforts during financial crises in Turkey, Brazil, and Argentina.

At the World Trade Organization (WTO), he served as one of the negotiators in the Uruguay Round that led to the WTO’s establishment and later held the position of Deputy Director-General. On June 8, 2020, Seade was officially nominated by the Mexican government as a candidate for Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), but his candidacy did not progress beyond the first round of consultations. Provided by Wikipedia