Mexico named Geronimo Gutiérrez, the head of the North American Development Bank, as the new ambassador to the United States, the Foreign Affairs Secretariat said in a statement on Friday.
Gutiérrez will replace Carlos Sada, who will take over the deputy minister post for North American relations, on Jan. 23, following the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
His nomination is subject to ratification by the country’s Senate.
Gutiérrez currently runs the development bank that was set up under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trade deal Trump has threatened to tear up and he has held top posts in the foreign, economy and interior ministries during the last two decades.
