Eduardo Bours

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José Eduardo Robinson Bours Castelo (b. December 17 1956 in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora) is a Mexican businessman and the current governor of Sonora.

He is a member of the Robinson Bours family of entrepreneurs and politicians. Eduardo is married to Lourdes Laborín, and has four children with her (Lourdes, Mario Alfredo, Lorena and Eduardo).

Biography

He graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education with a degree in Industrial Engineering and Systems Engineering at the Monterrey campus. His four uncles founded and own Bachoco, a company dedicated to the production of eggs and chicken and pork meats. He worked for Bachoco from 1980 to 1992. After which he served as president of the Consejo Nacional Agropecuario (the National Agricultural Conference) from 1992 to 1994. In 1994 he formed part of negotiations of the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as negotiator and representative of the private sector. In the same year he was invited to preside the board of directors of Fresh Fresh Del Monte Produce NV until December 1996. He was president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE, Coordination Council of Entrepreneurs). He was elected senator for Sonora for the term 2000 to 2006 but he left this position to campaign for governor in 2003. In 2003 he was elected as the 70th governor of Sonora, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and replacing Armando López Nogales.

Board member

He has been a member of the boards of directors of the following organizations:

Corporations

• Bachoco
• Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV)
• Fresh Del Monte Produce
• Grupo Azucarero Mexicano (GAM)
• Hérdez
• Nacional Financiera (NAFIN)

Non-profit

• Pronatura

Government

• Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior (Bancomext)
• Comisión Mixta para la Promoción de Exportaciones (COMPEX)
• Fondo de Capitalización e Inversión del Sector Rural (FOCIR)

Industry

• Corporación Mexicana de Restaurantes
• Unión Nacional de Avicultores
• Unión Nacional de Producción de Cerdos

See also

• List of Mexican state governors
• Robinson Bours

Current Mexican State Governors
Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchia Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés Colima: Silverio Cavazos Distrito Federal: Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez Durango: Ismael Hernández Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks	Guerrero: Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca Hidalgo: Miguel Osorio Chong Jalisco: Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña México: Enrique Peña Nieto Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez Nuevo León: Natividad González Parás Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Puebla: Mario Plutarco Marín Torres Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón	Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar Padilla Sonora: Eduardo Bours Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán Yucatán: Patricio Patrón Laviada Zacatecas: Amalia García

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