Rodrigo Alejandro Nieto Enríquez
Vice Minister of Urban Development and Housing
Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development
Mexixo

Biography
Mr. Nieto earned an architecture degree from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, and holds two masters’ degrees on Economics, and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California. Mr. Nieto has successfully fulfilled different positions on the federal government, such as being the General Director of the National Housing Commission, Coordinator in Mexico City of the National Institute of Housing for Workers; General Director of Land for Housing and General Manager of Territorial Reserves of the then Ministry of Urban Development and Ecology, and Chief of Staff of the Office of the Undersecretary of Human Settlements of the then Ministry of Human Settlements and Public Works. He also worked as a Junior Planner for the Regional Program of Human Settlements for Latin America of UN-Habitat-ECLAC On the state level, Mr. Nieto has worked in the State of Mexico as General Manager of the Land Registry, Secretary of Economic Development, General Manager of the Organism for Strategic Centers for Growth, Secretary of Urban Development and Public Works, Undersecretary of Government and Undersecretary of Political Development. From 1991 to 1994 Mr. Nieto was a legislator in the Federal Congress and during his tenure he served as secretary of the commission on human settlements, and president of the special commission for the reconstruction of the legislative palace of San Lazaro.   At the beginning of this administration he served as General Director of the National Housing Commission, where, acknowledging the negative effects of a policy based on financial concerns rather than urban ones, he worked with the highest level officers of the housing sector to define a new national policy, which not only dealt with housing matters but also with the related urban processes. On May 2014, he was appointed Vice minister of Urban Development and Housing in the recently created Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development. He currently manages a large portfolio of urban and housing regeneration programs. For instance, the Habitat and Public Space Rehabilitation programs work with the community, at the neighborhood level, to develop the necessary infrastructure and equipment to strengthen social cohesion and mitigate urban poverty. He also led the design of a program that subsidizes land to promote mixed-income housing developments in the inner city, as a strategy to prevent spatial segregation and unequal access to land.