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Speaker Dr. Alonso Ramos Vaca

Dr. Ramos sits on the boards of the Chihuahua State Council on Economic Development (where he lead the Chihuahua New Millennium Project), Canacintra (the local chamber of industry), Coparmex (the local employers association), Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Chihuahua, and the City Council for Economic Development. He has also been an economic development advisor for several projects in Mexico and abroad (El Salvador, Republic of South Africa, the Northeastern region of Brazil and the Dominican Republic).

In 1990, he was founding Chairman of the Chihuahua Center for Quality and Productivity (Centro Chihuahuense para la Calidad y Productividad A.C.). For four years, he was Chairman of the Board of a private sector organization, Economic Development of the State of Chihuahua (Desarrollo Econ—mico del Estado de Chihuahua A. C.), where he is currently Vice President. Previously, Dr. Ramos engaged in laboratory research and in the development of mathematical models for forecasting the physical behavior of polymers at the Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules, Strasburg, France. From 1978 to 1985, Dr. Ramos was employed at the Grupo Industria Alfa (the largest conglomerate in Mexico at this time) in Monterrey, N.L.—returning to Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1985 to take charge of a family firm that he continues to direct to this date.

Dr. Ramos attended the Monterrey Tec Institute of Higher Learning & Technology (ITESM) in Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, and graduated with honors as a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. He was an exchange student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, where he received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He also earned a Doctorate degree (Sc.D.) in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a specialization in Polymers Science.

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