Jorge Rodríguez Castañeda
Jorge Rodríguez Castañeda
Head of International Affairs
Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare - Mexico
Jorge Rodríguez Castañeda was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico on October 22, 1966. He is a lawyer from the Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico City (1986-1990) and has taken specialization courses in contracts, business law and telecommunications at Universidad Iberoamericana and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
Mr. Rodríguez Castañeda started his career in Industrial Resistol, S.A. de C.V. (1987 to 1988) and in the law firm Canizzo, Ortiz y Asociados, S.C. (1989). From 1990 to 1992 he was a private lawyer for the firm González Avelar y Asociados, and from 1993 to 1995, he was partner to the same firm, which was then named Soria, Rodríguez y Asociados.
In the federal public service, he has been Analyst for the Director General for Legal Affairs of the Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, S.N.C. (1992 to 1993), Chief of Staff for the Director General of the Mexican Postal Service (1996-1997), Director General for Legal Affairs of the Federal Telecommunications Commission (Cofetel) (1997 to 1998), Director General for Legal Advisory and International Negotiations of Cofetel (1998 to 1999), and Director General for Long Distance and Value Added of Cofetel (1999 to 2001).
From June 2001 to May 2006, he was Director General for Radio and Television Systems at the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, and from May 2006 to December 2006, he served as Head of Radio and Television Affairs of Cofetel.
He has been head of several government delegations and delegate to different international fora such as the World Summit on the Information Society Geneva 2003 – Tunis 2005; the World Radiocommunication Conference, the world Conference of Plenipotentiaries, and the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission, among others. He has participated as chief negotiator on radiocommunication and telecommunications bilateral affairs with the U.S. Department of Sate and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
On January 2007, Secretary Javier Lozano-Alarcón appointed Jorge Rodríguez Castañeda as Head of International Affairs at the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare.