Luis Videgaray Session Overview

LUIS VIDEGARAY is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Director of MIT AI Policy for the World Project. Before MIT, he served as Mexico’s Foreign Minister and Finance Minister, leading Mexico ́s relationship with the Trump White House, including the successful renegotiation of NAFTA. He is one of the founders of the Lima Group, created to promote regional diplomatic efforts towards restoring democracy in Venezuela, and conducted Mexico ́s leading role in the UN towards an inclusive debate on AI and other new technologies. As Mexico’s Finance Minister, Videgaray led the country’s energy liberalization, a telecommunications reform to foster competition in the sector, tax reform that reduced dependence on oil revenues, and the drafting of Mexico’s new Fintech Law. He was named Finance Minister of the Year by The Banker and Euromoney and a Leading Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.