title: Mauricio de María y Campos
text: # Mauricio de María y Campos
  
  Mauricio de María y Campos (13 October 1943 – 24 May 2021) was a Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and former Mexican Ambassador to South Africa.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Mauricio de María y Campos was born in Mexico City. He obtained a BA Degree in Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master's degree of Arts in Economic Development at Sussex University.
  
  He died in his home in Mexico City on 24 May 2021.
  
  ## Career
  
  * Undersecretary for Industrial Development at the Ministry for Trade and Industrial Development (1989–1992)
  * Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (1993–1997)
  * Ambassador at Large for Special UN Projects and Advisor to the Undersecretary for United Nations, Africa and Middle Eastern Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, 1998–2001)
  * Mexican Ambassador to South Africa (March 2002 – 2007)
  * Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones sobre Desarrollo Sustentable y Equidad Social de la Universidad Iberoamericana (2013?)
  * President of the Centro Tepoztlán (2014–2018)
  * Member of the Instituto para el Desarrollo Industrial y el Crecimiento Económico (IDIC)
  * Associate Researcher at the Center for Economic Studies (CEE) of El Colegio de México
  * Columnist at El Financiero
  