Petróleos Mexicanos appointed Elizabeth González Garduño as finance director, effective June 25, 2026. The company's Board of Directors approved the appointment and formally communicated it to the Mexican Stock Exchange, with her taking office after Juan Carlos Carpio's promotion to the company's general management.
The change in the financial leadership is part of a broader institutional reshuffle within Pemex. The adjustments are partly due to the departure of Víctor Rodríguez Padilla as CEO of the company, which occurred after a major oil spill in February that the company initially denied and recognized months later, after confirming that information had been concealed by middle management.
The new finance director's profile combines experience in the public sector and within Pemex's internal structure. Elizabeth González Garduño holds a degree in Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and served as Pemex's deputy director of budget before this appointment. Throughout her career, she has held positions in the Treasury of the Federation, the Undersecretariat of Finance and Public Credit, the Institute for the Protection of Bank Savings, the Housing Institute of Mexico City, and the Collective Transportation System Metro, with experience in budgetary management, financial administration, liquidity, accounting, and expenditure control.
In its statement, Pemex noted that the appointment "strengthens the management of the company's financial, budgetary, accounting, and administrative functions, and provides continuity to actions aimed at preserving financial discipline, liquidity, expenditure control, and efficient management of Petróleos Mexicanos' resources."
Pemex carries a financial debt of 79 billion dollars, with maturities this year in the order of 9.4 billion dollars, plus debts to contractors and suppliers of an additional 20 billion dollars. At the same time, its oil production is at its lowest level in four decades. The Mexican government has implemented a rescue of more than 50 billion dollars while trying to reactivate production through alliances with private companies under the mixed contract scheme. One of the most recent actions in that direction was the signing of an agreement with Petrobras to explore joint exploitation opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico.
From next+, we congratulate Elizabeth González Garduño on her appointment as finance director of Petróleos Mexicanos and recognize her trajectory in budgetary management, financial administration, and public expenditure control. We wish her success in this new stage leading the finances of one of the country's most important companies.