{{Short description|Mexican economist}} {{For|the politician|Miguel Ángel Mancera}} '''Miguel Mancera Aguayo''' (born December 18, 1932) is a Mexican economist.<ref name="CLAAF">{{Cite web |url=http://www.claaf.org/espanol/Miembros/Mancera2.html |title=Biography |publisher=claaf.org |accessdate=December 9, 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050215213705/http://www.claaf.org/espanol/Miembros/Mancera2.html |archivedate=February 15, 2005 }}</ref> He served as general director of the Bank of Mexico from 1982 until 1998.<ref name="D">''Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano'', Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.</ref><ref name="Banxico">{{Cite web |url=http://www.banxico.org.mx/publicaciones-y-discursos/publicaciones/seminarios/banco-de-mexico_-independencia-de-los-bancos-centr/%257B2F41CA09-8780-8A5A-5463-9231579E8041%257D.pdf |title=Miguel Mancera Aguayo |publisher=banxico.org |accessdate=December 9, 2017}}</ref>
Mancera Aguayo was born in Mexico City, and is the son of Rafael Mancera Ortiz and María Luisa Aguayo Cendejas. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a master's degree in economics from Yale University.<ref name="D"/>
Before joining the public sector, Mancera worked at the Bank of Commerce (nowadays ''BBVA Bancomer'', 1953 – 1955) and taught several courses at the ''Escuela Libre de Derecho'' (1956 – 1957). He was also a member of the faculty of the ITAM (1958 – 1965) and the Latin American Center of Monetary Studies (CEMLA, 1962 – 1964).<ref name="D"/><ref name="CLAAF"/><ref name="Banxico"/>
He joined the Mexican central bank (Banxico) in 1957 and 25 years later was appointed general director by President Miguel de la Madrid. During the 1980s, he faced one of the toughest economic crises in the history of Mexico and in the early 1990s he launched a new national currency, the Mexican ''Nuevo Peso''.<ref name="D"/>
Mancera is married to Sonia Corcuera Corcuera. He received the Order of Rio Branco (Brazil, 1983) and he is an officer of the French ''Légion d'honneur'' (1990).<ref name="D"/>
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