Carlos Tello Macías

Carlos Tello Macías (born November 4, 1938) is a Mexican economist, diplomat and academician. He is a former ambassador to Cuba, Portugal and Russia and former secretary of budget and planning in the cabinet of José López Portillo.

Tello Macías was born in Geneva, Switzerland when his parents, Manuel Tello Baurraud and Guadalupe Macías Viadero were serving as Mexican diplomats. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Georgetown University, a master's degree in economics from Columbia University and a doctorate's degree in economics from King's College, Cambridge University.

He joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1976. Besides serving as secretary of planning in one of the worst recessions in the history of Mexico (1976 – 1977), Tello worked in the public sector as undersecretary of finance (1975 – 1976) and general director of the Bank of Mexico (september 1982 – november 1982).

As an academician, he read several courses at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1960 – 1987), at "El Colegio de México" (1964 – 1979), at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and worked as a researcher for over nine years at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (1978 – 1987). He currently serves in the board of "El Trimestre Económico" and "Nexos".

Tello Macías is married to Catalina Díaz Casasús. He has three children. One of whom is, historian Carlos Tello Díaz, the author of "La rebelión de las cañadas".

Source: "Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano", Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.