Office: | President of the Senate of Mexico |
Term Start: | 1 September 2016 |
Term End: | 31 August 2017 |
Predecessor: | Roberto Gil Zuarth |
Successor: | Ernesto Cordero Arroyo |
Office2: | Senator of the Congress of the Union from Mexico City |
Term Start2: | 1 September 2012 |
Term End2: | 1 September 2018 |
Predecessor2: | Federico Döring |
Successor2: | Emilio Álvarez Icaza |
Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies from the Federal District |
Term Start3: | 1 September 2009 |
Term End3: | 31 August 2012 |
Constituency3: | 4th electoral region |
Birth Date: | 6 July 1973 |
Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
Spouse: | Sylvana Beltrones Sánchez |
Alma Mater: | Anahuac University |
Occupation: | Lawyer |
Party: | PVEM |
Pablo Escudero Morales (born July 6, 1973) is a Mexican politician and lawyer, member of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) and former federal deputy and senator. From 2016 to 2017, he served as President of the Senate of Mexico.
Pablo Escudero graduated with a law degree from the Universidad Anáhuac and a master's in public administration from the National Institute of Public Administration in Madrid, Spain.[1]
He began his career in public administration in 1997 as the coordinator of the program for responsibilities of public servants of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). After leaving in 2000, he returned to the IMSS the next year as private secretary to the comptroller. After brief stints at Pemex and the Secretariat of the Civil Service, he moved to the National Human Rights Commission, where from 2003 to 2005 he served as private secretary to CNDH president José Luis Soberanes Fernández; he then was the CNDH's secretary of administration until 2006 and senior officer of the institution from 2006 to 2009.
In 2009, he was elected as a proportional representation federal deputy from the PVEM to the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress year 2012. In this legislature, he was president of the Civil Service Commission and secretary of the Oversight Commission for the Superior Auditor of the Federation and National Defense Commission.
In 2012, he was nominated by the coalition of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and PVEM as part of its senatorial ticket for the Federal District. The ticket placed second, and Escudero was elected as the minority senator from the Federal District for the LXII and LXIII Legislatures. He served as chair of the Anti-Corruption and Citizen Participation Commission and member of commissions on Human Rights, the Federal District and Constitutional Points.
On August 31, 2016, he was elected President of the Senate for a six-month term.[2]
Pablo Escudero is married to Sylvana Beltrones Sanchez, daughter of PRI politician Manlio Fabio Beltrones.[3]