Carlos Jarque

Carlos M. Jarque Uribe (born October 18, 1954 in Mexico City) He is a Mexican economist, currently Executive Director of America Movil and Board Member of the Leading Global Group in Citizen Services FCC (Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas). He has had a distinguished career in the private sector, in public service (national and multilateral) and in the academic world.

Carlos M. Jarque has a degree in Actuarial Sciences from Anahuac University in México City. He has a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and a Masters in Econometrics M.Sc. from The London School of Economics and Political Science; Postgraduate Certificate in Economic Policy and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Oslo; Doctorate in Economics (Ph. D) from the Australian National University; and a Postdoctoral in Economics from Harvard University. In all the academic degrees he graduated with Distinction / Honors, obtaining the highest grades (GPA) of his class.

According to a CIDE study, he is the Mexican economist most cited in international specialized journals.[1] He has a broad academic career with a scientific production of more than 130 published articles and 44 books prefaced by him. He has made innovative theoretical, empirical and practical contributions using pioneering methods. His ideas have contributed in many scientific fields, particularly in socioeconomic studies, and in the definition and implementation of economic policies and programs to improve the standard of living. He is well known for his work in model specification tests (including the Jarque - Bera test statistic),[2][3] and for his methods on optimum stratification.[4] His research on Consumption and Saving Patterns using Limited Dependent Variable Models, have been pioneering ... his Quarterly Econometric Model with Rational Expectations (with P. Aspe) allowed to efficiently forecast economic cycles ... and his work on Cluster Analysis has ample use in the elaboration of Atlases of Wellbeing and Development.

His econometric tests for Normality, Homoscedasticity, Serial Independence and Specification of Models are in textbooks, they are taught in multiple university careers and they are incorporated in many computer programs. This allows for better studies of causality in economics and in the social sciences. Many generations of researchers around the world have been trained on the use of these econometric procedures.

He has also written about economic and social policies and strategies,[5] and about the Diplomacy of the Summits of Heads of State.[6] He has taught at the Faculty of Economics of the Australian National University, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University teaching in its Doctorate program in Economics.

He has received the Honoris Causa Doctorate from Anahuac University; the Adolphe Quetelet Medal from the World Academy of Statisticians; the Henri Willem Methorst Medal; the Benito Juárez Medal (given by the President of Mexico); the Mahalanobis Prize (world distinction in the field of Statistics); Prize "Ricardo Flores Magón" for support to Freedom of the Press and of Expression; Prize 2017 Master of GOLD of the Royal Forum of Top Business Executives (Forum that includes High executives of Ibero America, President of Honor King D. Juan Carlos I of Spain).

In addition to his academic and scientific contributions, he has had a successful career in the private sector, in the public sector and in international organizations.

Carlos M. Jarque began his career in Business Administration as Manager of Economic Studies of the Mexican Telephone Corporation in 1982, in charge of planning and economic and financial scenarios. He was then Chief Statistician of Mexico responsible for the direction of the economic and social statistical information systems of the country. He was also President of the Inter-Ministerial Committee of Information for Monitoring Public Finances, established with Vice-Ministers of the Treasury, Programming and Budget, Comptroller's Office and the Central Bank, to lower the Public Sector Deficit, which had a level extremely high in relation to GDP. To this end, quarterly deficit / surplus agreements were made with each of the main public companies and the country's development banks. Also, Adjustment Programs were defined for each institution and financial statements were monitored for results.

For almost eleven years, Carlos M. Jarque was President of the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) of Mexico, the autonomous government entity charged with integration of the information system of Mexico. During his tenure, he directed the design and implementation of a vast program that modernized the National Geographic and Statistical Information System, making it one of the most advanced in the world, to support, among other tasks, the fight against poverty, economic and social development, urban and regional planning, and the infrastructure programs of the country. He coordinated eight national censuses (economic, agricultural, population and housing) hiring more than one million people for the task. Carlos M. Jarque also directed short term statistics (GDP, trade balance, inequality, productivity, unemployment, investment, etc.) and information on the environment, and a pioneering project worldwide, the ecological GDP of Mexico. He also directed a Land Titling Program, elaborating a detailed cadaster at parcel level, in order to assign in ownership (title in property) half of the territory of Mexico (102 million hectares) to poor people. In this same program, one third of the total housing units of the country were also titled in property. He was the Y2K coordinator for the computer conversion of Mexico and responsible for the First Informatics Development Program in Mexico.

Carlos M. Jarque has been the only non-European (in more than 100 years) to hold the position of Director of the International Statistical Institute (ISI World Statistical Academy) with headquarters in The Netherlands. It is the premier international body in its field and the oldest international scientific organization in all fields of knowledge. His appointment was received through a World Search Committee made up of statisticians and economists from Japan, Canada, Australia, the United States, The Netherlands, England and Sweden. Among the previous Directors of the ISI is Jan Tinbergen, First Nobel Prize in Economics, pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to economics. The ISI encompasses the offices of national and international statistical agencies of the world, in addition to thousands of active members in research and in the application of "Statistical Science for a Better World". It has consultative status in the Economic and Social Council of the UN since 1949. It promotes the knowledge, development and good practices of Statistics.

Carlos M. Jarque has been President of the United Nations Statistical Commission, maximum global authority for the definition, approval and implementation of Methodologies to measure the economic phenomena (GDP, trade balance, capital account ...) and the social spheres (poverty, migration, education, employment, mortality, ...)). He participated in the definition, measurement and follow up of the Millennium Development Goals of the UN, human development objectives adopted by 189 countries. He has also been Chair of the UN Cartographic Conference.

He has held the position of Secretary / Director of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability; International Association for Statistical Education; International Association for Statistical Computing; International Association for Rural and Urban Statistics; International Association of Survey Statisticians; and the International Association for Official Statistics.

In addition to his contributions in the production and analysis of statistical and geographic information, in his professional practice he has participated extensively in the definition and execution of development policies and in public sector programs.

He was Secretary of the National Development Plan of Mexico for the period 1995–2000, made through a broad public consultation and which constituted the Government Program of President Ernesto Zedillo. It included chapters on Sovereignty, Rule of Law, Democratic Development, Social Development and Economic Growth. The strategy followed contributed to the democratic development of Mexico, to the recovery of the productive activity (growth of GDP averaged more than 5% yearly in real terms), and to the reduction (of -19%) in the rate of extreme poverty.

He also held the position of Minister of Social Development (SEDESOL), where he remained until the end of the Government in December 2000. In this position he directed a wide range of social programs (including those for poverty alleviation) and the initiatives for housing, microcredit, urban and regional development and territorial planning, managing budget lines of support to States and Municipalities. In this position he also coordinated the response to the catastrophic effects of natural disasters. He attended plenary sessions of the Congress of the Union (Chamber of Deputies and Chamber of Senators for hearings) on the social policy of the Government of the Republic. He signed the Social Development Agreements with each of the 32 Governors in the country. Promoted the mandatory evaluation of social programs to improve their effectiveness.

He was Director of the Department of Sustainable Development (2001-2005), of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the main multilateral source of financing for development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In this position, he was responsible for the definition of sectoral policies and development strategies of the IDB. The Department also gave the technical support for infrastructure, social and economic projects for the countries of the region, financed by the Bank. The Department also supported legal reforms in the countries for public / private partnerships and for social inclusion.

He was Secretary of the IDB (2005-2007), in charge of the institutional governance of the Bank and of the relationship with the Board of Governors (Ministers of Finance, Economy and Development of the 48 member countries of the IDB). As Secretary he oversaw the approval of all operations of the IDB, including 11 billion dollars a year in loans, the 70% increase in the Bank's capital, and its realignment and restructuring program. He supported, through the Secretariat, the debt relief program HIPC of the most indebted poor countries (4,400 million dollars) directly benefiting more than 30 million people in what was possibly the main act of international solidarity towards the highly indebted and poorest countries of LAC (Bolivia, Haiti, Honduras, Guyana and Nicaragua). In the IDB Group, he was also Secretary of the Inter-American Investment Corporation and Secretary of the Multilateral Investment Fund, an innovation laboratory for development.

From 2008 to March 2013, he was IDB Representative in Europe and Principal Adviser to the President, promoting, among other tasks, the investment and mobilization of resources between Europe and LAC, mainly in the areas of water, energy, infrastructure, urban development, transport and sustainable cities. During his tenure and with an efficient team, the development cooperation resources mobilized from Europe to the Latin American and Caribbean region through the IDB were multiplied by a factor of 20. He was Sherpa of the IDB for the Summits of Heads of State, and attended the Summits of the Americas, CELAC, European Union-LAC, Ibero-American and APEC Summits. He established the Permanent Secretariat of the European Union-LAC Business Summits and the IDB Office for Europe in Madrid, inaugurated by the President of Spain.

In addition to his experience in the management of strategic areas of the largest Development Bank in Latin America, he has made important contributions working in the Private Sector, in the Management and Administration of leading groups worldwide.

From April 2013 to August 2015, he was Executive Director at America Movil, in charge of Corporate, Government and International Relations, supporting the interaction with the Governments, International Agencies and the relationship with the CEOs of the countries. America Movil is the largest private company in Latin America with operations in 28 countries (17 Latin American countries, the United States, and 10 European countries). It is one of the main companies in fixed and mobile telecommunications, TV and value added services (IT services). It is the second largest worldwide telecom company outside China.

From August 2015 to September 2017 he was First Executive - CEO of the FCC Group with global headquarters in Madrid, Spain. FCC is the parent company of one of the first and most important global Citizen Services groups that contributes to the welfare and sustainable progress of society. FCC is present in the environmental services sector, integrated water management and in infrastructure, with more than 115 years of history. It has activities in 35 countries, where it employs more than 60,000 people and provides daily services to 130 million people. It provides Environmental Services in more than 5,000 municipalities in 13 countries, where it serves 59 million people. This division of FCC is the number one environmental services company in Spain and is among the 7 most important in the world. Its Water Division, FCC Aqualia, serves 22 million people in 22 countries. It is the 1st private water management company in Spain, 3rd in Europe and 7th in the world. Additionally, its Construction division is one of the main companies in the sector. In recent years, it has built more than 900 kilometers of high-speed trains. Among its works are numerous roads, bridges, hospitals, housing areas and buildings of multiple uses (e.g.; the Barajas Airport, Madrid, the airports of Lima, Bogota and Dublin, the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Spain, the Atlético de Madrid Stadium and many Subways such as those of Barcelona, Riyadh, Doha, Toronto, Lima and Panama). It is among the first 100 construction companies worldwide. Within the infrastructure activity, FCC through Cementos Portland has an annual production capacity of 15.8 million tons of cement considering its plants in Spain, USA and Tunisia. It is one of the main producers in Europe. In addition, FCC manages Real Estate Developments (Realia) and Concessions (roads, bridges, hospitals and public buildings).

Since September 13, 2017, Carlos M. Jarque, is a Member of the Board of FCC, Realia and Cementos Portland and Member of the Board of the Telekom Austria Group. He is also Executive Director at America Movil, in charge of Corporate, Governmental and International Relations, supporting the interaction with the Governments and the relationship with the CEOs of the countries and with international organizations.

He is a member of the Broadband Commission, created at the initiative of the Secretary General of the UN, made up of the Presidents of the main Telecommunications companies, Telecommunications Ministers, Regulators, Academics and Representatives of Civil Society. The Secretariat is exercised by the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union and the Director General of UNESCO. It is chaired by the President of Rwanda and Ing. C. Slim. Its function is to expand the use of Broadband in all sectors. C. M. Jarque has been a member of the Commission, and of the Working Group on Digital Skills and Education; the Expert Group to define better policies for Digital Inclusion worldwide; the Working Group on Digital Health; the Group to promote Digital Entrepreneurship and the Group for Child Safety on line.

Carlos M. Jarque has been a member of the Board of Directors of companies in the construction, financial, telecommunications, mining, real estate and citizen services sectors. He has also been a member of the “Consejo Superior” of the Network of Anahuac Universities, and of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Public Administration of Mexico. He has been a Member of the Intersecretarial Expenditure - Financing Commission, National Commission of Foreign Investments, Commission for Cooperation of Productive Sectors, Council of the National Indigenous Institute and of the National Fund of Social Enterprises.

The contributions of Carlos M. Jarque cover the academic world (e.g. Mexican economist most cited in international scientific journals); contributions in the Public Administration of Mexico (e.g. he has been Minister in the Mexican Cabinet and Secretary of the National Development Plan); contributions in multilateral organizations (e.g., Secretary General of an International Development Bank (IDB) and President of the UN World Statistical Commission); and contributions in the Private Sector at a global level (e.g. CEO of a leading global group of citizen and infrastructure services, and Executive Director in America Movil).