ADEFA APPOINTED ITS NEW MANAGEMENT César Ramírez

ADEFA APPOINTED ITS NEW MANAGEMENT
César Ramírez Rojas, President of Scania, was elected President of the Association, joined by Aníbal Borderes (Toyota) as
Vice President and Dominique Maciet (Renault) as Secretary
Mr. César Luis Ramírez Rojas, President of Scania Argentina S.A., has been unanimously elected to chair the Automobile Manufacturers Association (ADEFA) for a
one-year period together with Mr. Aníbal Borderes (President of Toyota Argentina S.A.) as Vice President and Mr. Dominique Maciet (President and General Director
of Renault Argentina SA) as Secretary.
This was established during ADEFA’s Annual Meeting held today Monday, October 19, after the new Board of Directors was formed, being its members
the Presidents of the Affiliated Companies: Messrs. Cristiano Rattazzi (Fiat Auto Argentina S.A.), Enrique Alemañy (Ford Argentina S.C.A.), Edgar Lourençon
(General Motors de Argentina S.R.L.), Natale Rigano (Iveco Argentina S.A.), Matthias Barth (Mercedes-Benz Argentina S.A.), Osvaldo Baños (PSA Peugeot Citroën
Argentina S.A.), and Viktor Klima (Volkswagen Argentina S.A.).
César Luis Ramírez Rojas
Born in Mexico on March 22, 1954, Mr. César Luis Ramírez Rojas is married and has two
children.
He obtained his University degree in Economics in 1976 at Instituto Tecnológico
Autónomo de México and his Master of Arts in Economics and Ph. D. in Economics at
Chicago University in 1979 and 1982 respectively.
Between 1975 and 1977 he worked as Research Assistant at the Center for
Latin American Monetary Studies; in 1979 he was consultant of the Director of Economic
Studies at Banco Mexicano Somex, and in 1980 he was advisor of the Revenue Policy
Director of the Department of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico.
From 1982 to 1986 he worked as an economist for Argentina, Paraguay and
Uruguay and he was economist of the Department of Economic Research of the International Monetary Fund.
Between 1990 and 1998 he was Director of Banco Crédito Argentino S.A. after
being Director of Structure Resources (Organization, Human Resources and Systems) from
1988 to 1990. He also held the position of Economy and Planning Manager of the financial
entity in the period 1987-88. He was in charge of Tecno Acción S.A. between 1991 and
2003, and since 1992 he is the President of Nusoft S.A..
Since 2004 he is Director of Scania Argentina and in 2005 he was appointed
President of the company. Since that year he is also the Director of Scania Latin America.
Until his current designation as President of ADEFA, Mr. Ramírez Rojas was the
Vice President of the Association.
César Luis Ramírez Rojas, President of Scania Argentina, new
president of ADEFA.
Academic Activity
In 1978 he received the National Award in
Economics for his thesis on “Expectations
of devaluation and demand of money in
Mexico 1947-1976” granted by Banco
Nacional de México (Banamex), and in
1987 he was speaker at the “Currency
Substitution in Latin America” Conference
held in La Paz, Bolivia as well as at the
“Symposium of Economics” organized by
the Banco Central de Uruguay, in Montevideo the same year.
Works: M. Khan: "Currency
Substitution and Government Revenue from
Inflation". Economic Analysis (Chile) Vol. 1
No.1. November 1986; "Monetary Substitution in Developing Countries". Finance and
Development (Washington) Vol. 23 No. 2.
June 1986; "Currency Substitution in
Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay". Staff
Papers, International Monetary Fund
(Washington) Vol. 32 No. 4. December
1985.
ADEFA’s new authorities: (from left to right) Dominique Maciet (President and General Director of Renault),
Secretary; César Luis Ramírez Rojas (President of Scania), President; Aníbal Borderes (President of Toyota),
Vice President.
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