User:David Peña

David Peña (born September 13, 1988) grew up in Mexico City. He graduated high-school from The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut in 2008. Later on, David Peña attended Princeton University where he majored in Politics with certificates in Political Economy and Latin American Studies. While at Princeton, he interned at the Mexican Embassy to Spain (Madrid) working as political analyst under the guidance of Foreign Affairs Counselor Ernesto Sosa Gallegos.

After graduation in 2012, David Peña joined ProMéxico-HQ, the Mexican Government institution in charge of strengthening Mexico’s participation in the international economy. There, he worked in the Investment Promotion and International Business Unit. He was part of the EMEA(Europe, the Middle East and Africa) team, headed by Regional Manager Alejandro Hinojos Ramírez and Director Luis Celis Mejía. He was part of the efforts to coordinate actions to attract foreign direct investment from the EMEA region to Mexican territory.

In 2013, David Peña becomes a member of ProMéxico-CEE (one of ProMéxico's 36 offices abroad), assisting the ProMéxico office based in Frankfurt led by Director Erwin Feldhaus and aiding the Economic and Trade Section at the Mexican Embassy to Austria (Vienna) led by Third Secretary Gonzalo Cervera.