Pablo Salvador Reyes Pruneda

Reyes Pruneda, who had a stint as director general of Correos last year, was re-appointed to the position this week by Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderón, following the resignation of José Ignacio García Olvera.

Following the appointment, Mexico’s transport and commmunications secretary Dionisio Perez-Jacome Friscione order the new Correos director general to move forward with the modernisation of Mexico’s postal services, to provide better services for customers and expand its customer base.

He also urged the new director general to continue efforts to strengthen the financial position of the Postal Service.

Mexico City-born Reyes Pruneda, 66, is an economist with both a masters and PhD from the University of Chicago who has spent more than two decades in the public sector, most recently serving as a senior official in Mexico’s Ministry of Communications and Transport.

Other than his previous time at the Postal Service, Reyes Pruneda has spent the last decade as a director at the Mexican Social Security Institute and as a director general of planning and budget at the Ministry of Finance.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Reyes Pruneda taught in the economics department of the Center for Economic Analysis and Research (ITAM), and during the early 1990s he worked for the National Company of Popular Subsistence (CONASUPO), the state food program dismantled in the late 1990s.

In re-appointing him, the government noted his previous experience as a director general of Correos de Mexico.

Secretary Perez-Jacome Friscione thanked García Olvera for his work strengthening the agency during his six months in charge, and wished him the greatest success.

Garcia Olvera was appointed director general of Correos in November 2010, and earlier this year addressed the World Mail and Express Americas conference in Mexico City, highlighting the need for technology to improve efficiency of operations at his company.

Source: James Cartledge, Post&Parcel

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