Juan Suárez Coppel
Non-Executive Director
Juan was appointed to the Board effective 27 May 2019. He’s a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Nominations Committee.
Juan has extensive experience in energy and resources in the Americas. He was previously Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). He was also a senior executive with Grupo Modelo and an independent non-executive director of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
During the 1990s, Juan was Chief of Staff to the Minister of Finance, Mexico, a senior executive with Banamex (now Citi) and Head of Corporate Finance and then Treasurer of Grupo Televisa, Mexico.
Juan has a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. During the 1980s, he held various academic roles. These include as a full-time professor in the ITAM Department of Economics, visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Department of Economics and associate professor at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Juan is a resident of Mexico.
