{{short description|Mexican politician}}
'''Georgina Kessel Martínez''' is a Mexican economist for the Spanish energy firm Iberdrola. She is a former head of the ''Casa de Moneda de México'' (the Mexican mint) and the Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.<ref>{{cite news | author=Dickerson, Marla | title=Free-market approach to prevail in Mexican Cabinet |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-fi-calderon22nov22,1,1491442.story?coll=la-headlines-politics |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127223248/http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-fi-calderon22nov22,1,1491442.story?coll=la-headlines-politics |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-27 | work=Los Angeles Times | date=2006-11-22 | accessdate=2006-11-22 }} df </ref>
She was head of the Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos (Banobras).
==Personal life and education== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=June 2024}} Kessel attended the ''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México'' (ITAM) from 1975 to 1979 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics. A few years later she received a doctorate in the same discipline from Columbia University in the United States. Kessel worked for over nine years as a full-time professor at the ITAM, where she headed the Department of Economics in 1994. Amongst her former students is Felipe Calderón, who earned a master's degree in economics under Kessel at ITAM. Calderón subsequently appointed her Minister of Energy after he was elected President of Mexico in 2006.
==Public and political career== In the public sector Kessel has worked at the Energy Regulatory Commission, the Mexican mint ''(Casa de Moneda de México)'', Pemex and the Secretariat of Finance.<ref>{{cite news |title = ¿Quién es Georgina Kessel? |url = http://www.yucatan.com.mx/noticia.asp?cx=9$0924000000$3427448&f=20061121 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155307/http://www.yucatan.com.mx/noticia.asp?cx=9$0924000000$3427448&f=20061121 |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2007-09-30 |publisher = Diario de Yucatán |date = 2006-11-21 |language = Spanish }}</ref>
In 2005 she received the ''Premio al mérito profesional in the public sector'', a recognition of the ITAM alumni.
She was appointed member of the Board of Directors of Iberdrola on 23 April 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iberdrola.com/sala-comunicacion/noticias/detalle/georgina-kessel-se-incorpora-al-consejo-de-administracion-de-iberdrola-9319570420130423|title=Georgina Kessel se incorpora al Consejo de Administración de Iberdrola|date=23 April 2013}}</ref>
==Published works== * ''El sur también existe'' (with Santiago Levy and Enrique Dávila) * ''Los peligros del Plan Puebla-Panamá'' * ''Lo negociado del Tratado de Libre Comercio'' (compiler) * {{cite book|author1=Eduardo Andere|author2=Georgina Kessel|title=México y el Tratado Trilateral de Libre Comercio: Impacto Sectorial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16WzAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=McGraw-Hill Interamericana de México|isbn=978-970-10-0191-2}}
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