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Bernardo Gonzalez is the Chairman of the Mexican Pension Funds Association, since January 2019 and Vice Chairman of the Board at Accendo Bank since May 2020. He has been a regulator for the financial system. He first served as Vice Chairman of Regulatory Policy at the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV), then as Assistant Secretary for Banking, Securities and Savings at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) and finally as Chairman of the CNBV. During this period, Bernardo Gonzalez participated in the design of the 2014 Financial Reform, led the renegotiation of the financial services chapter of the Mexico-United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA); He was in charge of the design and approval of the Mexican Fintech Law in Congress as well as the development of the required secondary regulation. He was responsible for the design of the National Policy for Financial Inclusion, as well as the National Strategy for Financial Education in 2017. Bernardo has held various executive positions in development banks such as Financiera Rural and Banco del Ahorro Nacional y Servicios Financieros (Today Banco del Bienestar). He was also Assistant Secretary for Developing Banking at the Ministry of Finance where he has responsible of conducting the public policy objectives of the six banks and development agencies and also chaired their boards of directors. As a consultant, Bernardo Gonzalez has worked for multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (UKDFID).