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Pedro Aspe, age 55, has been since 1996 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Protego Asesores, S.A. de C.V., a leading investment banking advisory firm in Mexico. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Aspe was Chairman of the Board of Vector Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V., an investment banking firm in Mexico. Dr. Aspe has been since 1995 a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México located in Mexico City. Dr. Aspe has held a number of positions with the Mexican government and was most recently the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico from 1988 through 1994. Dr. Aspe is a Director of the Carnegie Corporation and of Televisa located in Mexico City. Dr. Aspe is a member of the Advisory Board of Stanford University’s Institute of International Studies and the Visiting Committee of the Department of Economics of MIT. Dr. Aspe also sits on the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer and American International Group, Inc. Dr. Aspe has served as a Director of the Company since 1996 and is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Executive and Financial Policy Committees. | 