Ambassador Gerónimo Gutierrez Fernandez, Senior Advisor, Covington & Burling LLP; Managing Partner, Beel Infrastructure Partners; Ambassador of Mexico to the United States (2017-2018)

Ambassador Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández provides strategic advice to businesses and governments on political risk, public affairs, communications, and business development.

Gutierrez Fernandez has over 20 years of experience in senior government positions under five Mexican presidents in the areas of finance, trade, national security, and diplomacy. Most recently, he served as Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States. In that position, he played a prominent role in the negotiation of the United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Gutierrez Fernandez previously served as Managing Director of the North American Development Bank (NADB),
Deputy Secretary for Governance and Homeland Security, member of the National Security Council’s Executive
Committee, and in the Foreign Ministry as Under Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean and Under
Secretary for North America. In the latter capacity, he coordinated day-to-day trilateral and bilateral affairs with the
United States and Canada. He also led negotiations for the creation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership for
North America (SPP) – the prelude to the present-day North American Leaders Summit.

Gutierrez Fernandez is a Senior Advisor at Covington and Burling, Managing Partner of BEEL Infrastructure, a
specialized advisory and asset management firm focused on the infrastructure sector in Latin America, and
Independent Board Member of Seguros Monterrey New York Life. He serves on Advisory Boards of the United States
– Mexico Business Association (AEM), the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and the American Society
of Mexico. He holds a B.A. degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a
master's degree in public administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, for which he
received a Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship. He regularly contributes to opinion articles for several newspapers
and magazines in Mexico and teaches a course on Contemporary Issues of U.S-Mexico relations at George
Washington University.