| Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores | |
| Secretary of Finance and Public Credit | |
| Term Start: | 16 March 1982 |
| Term End: | 17 June 1986[1] |
| President: | José López Portillo Miguel de la Madrid |
| Predecessor: | David Ibarra Muñoz |
| Successor: | Gustavo Petricioli |
| Office2: | 7th Secretary of Tourism |
| Term Start2: | 14 December 1993 |
| Term End2: | 30 November 1994 |
| Predecessor2: | Pedro Joaquín Coldwell |
| Successor2: | Silvia Hernández Enríquez |
| President2: | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Office3: | Ambassador of Mexico to the United States |
| Term Start3: | 10 February 1995 |
| Term End3: | 3 November 1997[2] |
| Predecessor3: | Jorge Montaño |
| Successor3: | Jesús Reyes Heroles |
| President3: | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Office4: | Ambassador of Mexico to Spain |
| Term Start4: | 16 April 1991 |
| Term End4: | 14 January 1994 |
| Predecessor4: | Enrique González Pedrero |
| Successor4: | Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza |
| President4: | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Birth Name: | Jesús Silva y Flores |
| Birth Date: | 8 May 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Death Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Party: | Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI)[3] |
| Spouse: | María Teresa Márquez Diez-Canedo |
| Alma Mater: | National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Yale University |
| Profession: | Politician, economist |
Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores, born as Jesús Silva y Flores[4] (8 May 1935 – 6 March 2017) was a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1986), as ambassador to Spain (1991–1994)[5] and the United States (1995–1997), and as secretary of Tourism (1994) in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Silva Herzog was born as Jesús Silva y Flores in Mexico City to economic historian Jesús Silva Herzog and Josefina Flores Villarreal. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, 1959) and a master's degree in the same discipline from Yale University (1962).
He taught several courses in Economics at UNAM (1963–1969) and Spanish; Castilian: [[El Colegio de México]] (1964–1969); worked as an economist for the Inter-American Development Bank (1962–1963) and as director-general of the National Institute of Housing (INFONAVIT, 1972–1976) before joining the Bank of Mexico as director-general (1977–1978) and serving as undersecretary of Finance in the cabinet of José López Portillo (1979–1982).
In 2000, he lost Mexico City's Head of Government election to Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Silva Herzog died on March 6, 2017, at the age of 81.[6]
He was married to María Teresa Márquez Diez-Canedo and is the father of three children: María Teresa, Eugenia and Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez.
. Roderic Ai Camp. Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993. University of Texas Press. 1995. 3rd. 675. 9780292711815. 1 December 2008.