Keynote speakers named for PECOM 2017

Several keynote speakers have been added to the 23rd annual Petroleum Exhibition & Conference of Mexico (PECOM) conference that will be held in March 2017 in Villahermosa, Tabasco Mexico.

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Next year’s event, which will run from 28-30 March, will have several industry experts that focus on Mexico’s oil and gas sector.

The six keynote speakers that will lead sessions at PECOM 2017 include: Guillermo García Alcocer, president of the Energy Regulatory Commission; Federal Deputy Georgina Trujillo Zentella, president of the Energy Commission of the LXIII Legislature; Oscar Roldán Flores, head of the National Data Center for Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH); David Madero Suárez, Ph.D., general director for Mexico’s National Center for Control of Natural Gas (CENAGAS); Ricardo Fitz Mendoza, secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, State of Tabasco; and David Gustavo Rodríguez Rosario, Ph.D., secretary of economic development and tourism for the State of Tabasco.

Attendees of the 2017 PECOM conference can expect to learn about Mexico’s current and future oil and gas activities, including the latest information and updates on the energy reforms from SENER, CNH, top industry officials, and the legal community.

About the keynote speakers

Guillermo García Alcocer

Since June 2014, Alcocer has been the head of policy for exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons in the Ministry of Energy.

His expertise covers a wide range of areas within the Mexican hydrocarbon industry, including technical and economic regulation, public policy design and business evaluation and development.

His prior position was general director of hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation from July 2012 to May 2014, in charge of the technical group of the Ministry of Energy which drafted the Energy Reform for the hydrocarbon sector.

Alcocer was also general director for Hydrocarbon Industrial Development at the Ministry of Energy, where he was responsible for the creation and approval of business associations of refinery, petrochemical and logistics companies, as well as oil marketing projects.

Georgina Trujillo Zentella

Trujillo is the president of the LXIII Legislature of the Congress Energy Commission of Mexico. As of 2014, Trujillo has served as the Senator of the LVIII and LIX legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing the state of Tabasco. She served as Mayor of Centro, Tabasco and Senator from 2000-2006.

Trujillo has a degree in business administration from the Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco, and is the daughter of the former governor of Tabasco, Mario Garcia Trujillo.

Oscar Roldán Flores

Roldan is the head of national data repository of CNH. He has served as the CNH general director of planning (2012), and prior to that he was the CNH general director of hydrocarbons (2009).

His career in the hydrocarbons industry began in 2001 at the Ministry of Finance where he was part of the team involved on the new fiscal regime for Pemex.

Roldan holds a B.A. in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a Master’s degree in statistics and econometrics from University of Essex in the UK.

David Madero Suárez, Ph.D.

Suárez is the general director of the National Center for Control of Natural Gas (CENAGAS).
Madero has worked more than sixteen years in the Mexican federal government. His past responsibilities include chief financial and management officer at the Treasury´s Service for Asset Management and Disposal; credit director at the national development bank for infrastructure (Banobras); management positions and advisor to the Minister at the Ministry of Energy –overseeing upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas activities and participating within the Pemex board of directors; and several positions in macroeconomic and financial analysis and policy design at the Mexican Treasury and Central Bank.

His expertise includes public finance, macroeconomics, and public policy, with a particular emphasis in oil and gas.

Madero is an economist from ITAM, with a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ricardo Fitz Mendoza

Mendoza is the secretary of ministry of energy, natural resources and environmental protection for the State of Tabasco.

In 2013, he was appointed SERNAPAM assistant secretary for sustainable development, and in September 2015 to date, he holds the position of head of SERNAPAM.
Mendoza has held positions in the environmental field since 2003, and being elected as technical secretary of the Commission for Agricultural Affairs, Forestry, Water and Fishery by the Congress of the State of Tabasco. In 2007, he began to have a social involvement with SERNAPAM.

David Gustavo Rodríguez Rosario, Ph.D.

Rosario is the secretary of economic development and tourism for the State of Tabasco.

He has been member of the expert panel in public finances on behalf of the UN for the reforms regarding social protection in central Asia; member of the Mexican Talent Network Abroad; member of the Mexican Commission on Macroeconomics and Health; corporate groups counselor in public and corporate finance, institutional investment and social protection topics; member of the International Association of Behavioral Economists, and of the International Health Economists Association; Lecturer in Public Sector Economics and Social Protection finances for UNICEF programs, the OIT and European universities in Europe, Asia and Africa.

He was deputy director of the European Center for Governance and Innovation for Development (ECGID), a research center with affiliated researchers from 12 European, Asian, American and Middle-Eastern universities.

He was Secretary General for the Economics Student’s Representation at ITAM; appointed Secretary General of ITAM’s Surveillance Commission for the Representatives Assembly; founding National Counselor and President of Tabasco’s Committee for Political Awareness, A.P.N.

Rosario has a Master’s degree in public policy from ITAM; a Master’s degree in science in finance with specialization in social protection from Maastricht’s University; and he also has a Master’s degree in economical policy and social policy research.

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