José Luis Luege Tamargo

Director General

National Water Commission

Luege Tamargo was appointed Director General of the National Water Commission by President Felipe Calderón on December 1, 2006; after holding positions as Attorney General for Environmental Protection and Head of the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources.

Luege Tamargo's political career began in the early 1980s and in 1988 he was elected federal deputy by a majority by the National Action Party. He participated in the Ecology, Industry, Trade and Federal District Commissions. From 1994 to 1997, he served as Representative of the Federal District Assembly, where he headed the Commission for Urban Roads and Highway Administration. During this period, he achieved consensus for a new law of transport for the capital and took part in crucial studies on the problem of transport and highway administration from a metropolitan perspective.

Luege has been President of the PAN Regional Board of Directors in the Federal District for two periods, from June 1999 to September 2003. He is currently a member of the National Council and since February 2002, has been a member of the National Executive Committee.

Luege is a native of the Federal District, where he obtained a degree in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at the Chemistry Faculty at UNAM, where he taught for five years. He obtained two specialties in iron and steel processes, one at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and another at the National Center for Iron and Steel Processes in Madrid. He worked for 14 years in the national iron and steel industry.

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