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During this period, Mexico’s public debt management achievements received several awards and distinctions:

His primary roles as Undersecretary of Finance were the development, coordination and implementation of Mexico´s main macroeconomic and financial policies. Among such policies were the following: the federal government´s fiscal, exchange rate, financial and economic policy; the development of optimal strategies for the issuances of public debt; the design and execution of the development banking policies; the monitoring and regulation of the financial system; the proper functioning and evolution of the retirement saving system; the modeling and implementation of the infrastructure investment policy; and Mexico´s relationship with international financial organizations, as well as the country’s participation in international financial forums.

Gerardo Rodriguez joined BlackRock in 2013 as a Managing Director in the Emerging Markets group. He is currently a Portfolio Manager with broad responsibilities including the Total Emerging Markets Fund. Gerardo is also regularly engaged in the production of though leadership content on Emerging Markets at BlackRock.

He was responsible of the finance track at the Deputies level during the Mexican Presidency of the G20 in 2012. Under his guidance, the Mexican economic and financial agenda was designed and promoted; emphasis was placed on developing policies to boost job creation and reinvigorate the economy, strengthening the international financial architecture, enhancing financial regulations, fostering financial inclusion and education, and promoting green policies. Among the outcomes of the G20 in 2012 are the commitment to increase the resources available for the IMF for crisis prevention and resolution for 450 billion dollars, and the adoption of Los Cabos Growth and Jobs Action Plan.

On January 19, 2011 Gerardo took office as Undersecretary of Finance and Public Credit, position to which he was appointed by President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and ratified by Congress.

Moreover, Gerardo Rodríguez had a prominent role in the design and approval process in Congress of several structural reforms, such as the new Public-Private Partnership Law for infrastructure projects, the reform to the Antitrust Law in 2011 and the reform to the INFONAVIT Law in 2011.

He was nominated by Expansion Magazine as one of the “30 promises in their 30s”, in its 2011 edition, recognizing him for being an expert manager of macroeconomic and financial variables in Mexico. Furthermore, Quien Magazine distinguished Gerardo Rodriguez as one of the 50 most influential people in Mexico in 2012 for his leadership during Mexico’s G20 presidency.

Since its creation in 2008, the National Infrastructure Fund has supported more than 90 projects; this represents more than 7,800 million dollars to help finance new roads, water treatment plants, mass urban transport solutions, and other sectors, that would thereby detonate investments worth more than 17,450 million dollars.

From January 2005 to January 2011 he served, within the same Ministry, as Head of the Public Credit Unit, after being ratified by Congress. During his tenure, he was responsible for the Federal Government’s financing operations in the international and local markets, and of authorizing the financing for public entities. He also was in charge of activities related with the development of infrastructure projects, especially through the National Infrastructure Fund.

Prior to joining BlackRock Gerardo spent more than 14 years at the Mexican Ministry of Finance where he held several positions in areas related to public debt policy, risk management and financial system development. In the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit he worked from 2001 to 2004 as Deputy General Director for domestic debt, where he was responsible for the Federal Government financing in the local market as well as the promotion and development of the long term government bond market in local currency.

A sports enthusiast, he was granted a sports scholarship from his alma mater between 1991 and 1996 for being a member of the varsity basketball team.

Gerardo Rodriguez Regordosa (born July 10, 1972 in Puebla, Mexico) is an economist from Universidad de las Americas Puebla (UDLA-P), with a master's degree in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University. Gerardo is currently a Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets at BlackRock. Prior to joining BlackRock he spent more than 14 years at the Mexican Ministry of Finance and Public Credit where he served most recently as Undersecretary of Finance and Public Credit from January 2011 to November 2012.