Executive Director of Economic Research and Financial Markets Strategy
@
Banorte
Alejandro Padilla has 15 years of experience as a professional economist and macro strategist. Mr. Padilla is Executive Director of Economic Research and Head of Financial Markets Strategy (Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities and Equities) at Grupo Financiero Banorte, the second largest bank in Mexico. He has been part of Banorte’s team for the last 10 years. Previously, Mr. Padilla worked for more than 3 years at J.P.Morgan Chase as emerging markets strategist, based primarily in the Mexico City office. He has also worked in the financial sector in areas related to treasury and IR. Mr. Padilla obtained a Master’s degree in Economics from University of Stellenbosch, together with an Honours degree (graduate level) in Financial Economics from the same institution. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from ITAM in Mexico and a Corporate Finance diploma from Kellogg/Northwestern University. On the academic front, Mr. Padilla has lectured in the MBA program at Universidad Iberoamericana and at several diploma programs about corporate finance and market economy at Tecnológico de Monterrey – EGADE Business School, Universidad Anáhuac and Riskmathics. He actively participates in national and international publications, as well as in radio and TV specialized programs, highlighting a monthly newspaper column at El Financiero Bloomberg. He was awarded with the “Future Leaders” distinction in 2017 by the Institute of International Finance. Since 2020 is part of the Economic Studies Committee from IMEF. He has dictated several conferences about economics and financial markets in Mexico, United States, Europe and Asia
