On Feb. 6-7, Mexico News Daily and Querencia hosted the “Future of Mexico Forum” at the Querencia Private Golf & Beach Club in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur. The forum brought together leaders from Mexico and the United States to discuss the future of Mexico across a diverse range of topics. As part of this Forum, the MND team conducted a series of exclusive interviews with each of the speakers and will be sharing the highlights with you in this series.

The first interview we’re presenting is with José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, a cabinet minister in the 2006-12 federal government led by former president Felipe Calderón and in the 2012-18 government led by former president Enrique Peña Nieto. Meade held four different ministerial portfolios between 2011 and 2017: energy, finance (twice), foreign affairs and social development. In 2018, he was a candidate for president, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Meade was born in Mexico City and has degrees in economics and law, including a PhD in economics from Yale Unive