Angel Gurría, who seems certain to be the next secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development after he gained the support of the body's 30 member nations last week, comes to the job after three decades as one of the technocrats who led the opening of Mexico's economy.
He also has considerable experience of the problems that can be wrought by global imbalances.
A product of the labyrinthine internal politics of the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI), which governed Mexico without interruption from 1929 to 2000, he moved through the machinery to become foreign secretary and then Treasury secretary without ever standing for election.
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