Topic: Agustin Carstens

Agustín Guillermo Carstens Carstens (born 9 June 1958 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist who has served as Governor of the Bank of Mexico since 1 January 2010 and is currently seeking to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the International Monetary Fund. He previously served as Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón (2006–09), as deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (2003–06) and as Treasurer of the Bank of Mexico.

Carstens graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). After working as an intern in the Bank of Mexico he received a scholarship and completed both a master's degree (1983) and a doctorate in Economics (1985) at the University of Chicago. His thesis advisor was Michael Mussa, former Economic Counselor and Director of the Department of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 1991 to 2001.

He is married to Catherine Mansell, an academic, writer and economist from the United States who has authored several books on finance and on literary fiction and nonfiction under the pen name C. M. Mayo.