page_title: Consuelo Sáizar
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Consuelo Sáizar / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: CONACULTA director Consuelo Sáizar speaking at ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México
context_page_description: Roxana del Consuelo Sáizar Guerrero, is an editor and publisher, former CEO of Fondo de Cultura Económica, President of the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes and President of the Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe. She began her career working in the family printing business at her home state of Nayarit. After graduating with a degree in Communications in 1983, she began to manage editorial departments and publishing houses until 2002, when she was appointed director of government-owned Fondo de Cultura Económica, which is considered the largest publishing house in Latin America. She restructured the organization and started its electronic publishing program. In 2009, she was named President of CONACULTA, an institution devoted to promoting Mexican culture both domestically and abroad, that has since been transformed into the National Ministry of Culture. In 2015 she obtained an MPhil on Modern Society and Global Transformations, and is currently writing a PhD dissertation on the publishing industries of Mexico and Spain, also at Cambridge.
context_section_description: Romana del Consuelo Sáizar Guerrero was born in Acaponeta, Nayarit, Mexico in 1961. She often jokes that in her small hometown most girls think about becoming hairdressers or read poetry. In her case, she was born into a family related to print media. Her grandfather owned a print shop and a newspaper he founded in 1917. Her father then inherited the newspaper.
  She began working on the family business when she was young, then decided to make a professional career of that. She received a bachelor's degree in Communications from Universidad Iberoamericana in 1983. She continued studying accounting, public administration and finance, receiving certificates from this university as well as from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. She also studied publishing in Great Britain.
  She has had personal and professional relationships with a number of important writers and intellectuals, including Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis . She has stated that her most precious possession is a copy of The Aleph autographed by Jorge Luis Borges.
caption: Sáizar speaking at ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México.
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