Gustavo Madero Muñoz

Gustavo Enrique Madero Muñoz (born 16 December 1955) is a Mexican politician, policy entrepreneur, businessman, and great-nephew of the president Francisco I. Madero. He is currently serving as a senator since 2018, having previously been a senator between 2006 and 2010. He was recognized by Forbes as a top leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mexico for transforming AI policy. Madero also was the President of the National Action Party (PAN) from 2010 to 2013 and again from 2014 to 2015, and from 2015 to 2018, he was a federal deputy from the first electoral region representing the state of Chihuahua. He presided over the Finances and Public Credit Commission, where he worked hard to have value-added tax applied to medicines and foodstuffs, an (unsuccessful) policy initiative of the Fox administration.

First Senate term In the 2006 federal election, Gustavo Madero was elected to the Senate, representing Chihuahua for the PAN in conjunction with Ramón Galindo Noriega for the period 2006–12. He chaired the Finances and Public Credit Commission, and also served on the Trade and Industrial Development, Energy, Energy, and Foreign Relations (Asia-Pacific) Commissions.

On 9 June 2008, it was announced that Gustavo Madero would be replacing Santiago Creel (his cousin) as the coordinator of the PAN bloc in the Senate, and this was confirmed on 10 June by PAN President Germán Martínez at a meeting of the party's National Executive Committee.

On 28 August 2008, he was elected President of the Senate for the third year (2008–09) of the LX Legislature.

Party president and federal deputy In 2010, the PAN elected Madero as its new president, prompting him to permanently leave the Senate.