| Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo | |
| Office: | President of the Senate of Mexico |
| Term Start: | 1 September 2017 |
| Term End: | 31 August 2018 |
| Predecessor: | Pablo Escudero Morales |
| Successor: | Martí Batres Guadarrama |
| Term Start1: | 1 September 2012 |
| Term End1: | 31 August 2013 |
| Predecessor1: | José González Morfin |
| Successor1: | Raúl Cervantes Andrade |
| Office2: | Senator of the Republic |
| Term Start2: | 1 September 2012 |
| Term End2: | 31 August 2018 |
| Office3: | Secretary of Finance and Public Credit |
| President3: | Felipe Calderón |
| Term Start3: | 9 December 2009 |
| Term End3: | 9 September 2011 |
| Predecessor3: | Agustín Carstens |
| Successor3: | José Antonio Meade Kuribreña |
| Office4: | Secretary of Social Development |
| President4: | Felipe Calderón |
| Term Start4: | 15 January 2008 |
| Term End4: | 9 December 2009 |
| Predecessor4: | Beatriz Zavala Peniche |
| Successor4: | Heriberto Félix Guerra |
| Birth Date: | 9 May 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Birthname: | Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo |
| Party: | National Action Party |
| Relations: | Married |
| Alma Mater: | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
| Profession: | Actuary |
Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo (born 9 May 1968) is a Mexican actuary, public servant and politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN)..
He has been Secretary of State on two occasions: he was Secretary of Social Development, and Finance Secretary, when he resigned to take part in the internal elections for the Presidency of Mexico for the PAN.[1] Cordero was the President of the Mexican Senate, a role that is traditionally rotated among the three largest parties in Congress for one-year terms, from September 2012 to August 2013 and again from September 2017 to August 2018.
Ernesto Cordero was born in Mexico City on 9 May 1968. Son of Ernesto Cordero Galindo, a well-known professor of medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and of Graciela Arroyo, a nurse who directed for two periods the “Escuela Nacional de Enfermeria y Obstetricia (National School of Infirmary and Obstetrics) of the UNAM. On May 16, 2006, Marta Sahagún inaugurated the Esplanade of the Distinguished Nurses and unveiled a bust in her honor at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health. He has a sister: Graciela Cordero Arroyo who is a pedagogue in the UNAM and has a doctorate in education from the University of Barcelona.
He majored as an actuary in the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He also got a master's degree in economics by the University of Pennsylvania where he also did some doctorate studies.
When he finished his postgraduate studies in 2011, Cordero was in charge of the General Management of the Miguel Estrada Iturbide Foundation, the institution is in charge of giving technical counseling in legislative projects to the members of the Parliamentary Group of the National Action Party (PAN) in the House of Representatives.
Ernesto Cordero has been a professor of international economics at the University of Pennsylvania; of economics and statistics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and of econometrics in the Center of Research and Economics Teaching at the Universidad Panamericana.
In 2004, along with a reduced group of public servants, he resigned to the charge of undersecretary of Energy and Technological Development in the Energy Secretariat (SENER), to join the secretary of the SENER at that time, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, in his pre-candidature for the Mexican Presidency. In this campaign, Cordero was the coordinator of Public Politics.
On June 15, 2008, Mexican president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa named him the head of the Social Development Secretariat in substitution of Beatriz Zavala Peniche.
As Secretary, he designed and implemented different politics in social development: strengthening, modernizing, and making transparent programs with a high impact on theconditions of Mexicans' lives.
He also faced the international financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. To counteract the increase of international prices in food, he incorporated new supports in the social programs and he made sure to keep the stability of the prices in the poorest regions of the country:
Ernesto Cordero played an important role when facing the AH1N1 flu outbreak because of his support in the co-ordination of strategies to give attention to the public together with the Health Secretariat.
From 2007 to 2009, 1,300,000 floors were placed to benefit almost 4.8 million people.
During 2009 the coverage of the Program 70 and more was extended, it gives support to people of the third age in places with up to 30,000 inhabitants, increasing the number of beneficiaries in almost 200, 000.
On 9 December 2009, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa the President of Mexico appointed him Finance Secretary in substitution of Agustín Carstens. He was the first Finance Secretary from the PAN.
Cordero led the economic recovery, the consolidation of the public finance and the implementation of new politics with a social view.
On 9 September 2011, he resigned from his position at the Finance Secretariat to compete for the presidential candidature of the PAN.
He has been President of the Committee of the Assembly of Governors of the "Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo" (BID); Co-president of the Committee of Transition of the United Nations for the Design of the Green Climate Fund; Co-president of the Group of Work of the G-20 for the Revision of the international monetary systems.
In Mexico he has been President of the National Counsel of Social Politics; President of Financial System Stability Council; Coordinator of the Social Cabinet, as well as a Member of the Security Cabinet.
In 2011, he fought to become the elected candidate of the PAN to run for the Mexican presidency against Santiago Creel Miranda and Josefina Vázquez Mota; Josefina Vázquez Mota won on 5 February 2012.
In February 2012, the National Commission of Elections of the PAN disclosed Ernesto Cordero as the first candidate in the party's national list for the Senate of the Republic. That action, given PAN's status as a major national party, guaranteed that Cordero would be elected senator in the July 2012 elections.