Biography
He graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education with a degree in Industrial Engineering and Systems Engineering at the Monterrey campus. He worked for Bachoco from 1980 to 1992. After which he served as president of the Consejo Nacional Agropecuario (the National Agricultural Conference) from 1992 to 1994. In 1994 he formed part of negotiations of the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as negotiator and representative of the private sector. In the same year he was invited to preside the board of directors of Fresh Fresh Del Monte Produce NV until December 1996. He was president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE, Coordination Council of Entrepreneurs). He was elected senator for Sonora for the term 2000 to 2006 but he left this position to campaign for governor in 2003. In 2003 he was elected as the 70th governor of Sonora, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and replacing Armando López Nogales.
Read more about this topic: Eduardo Bours
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)
“Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.”
—James Boswell (1740–95)