In 1975 Cecilio Garza graduated with honors at the Universidad Iberoamericana with specialty in International Law. He received a master’s degree in Business Administration at Saint Michael’s College, in Burlington, Vermont, (1976) and in Public Administration at the University of Paris Dauphine, Sorbone (1979). He later received a Third Cycle Doctorate in Economy at the same University in Paris and the National Diploma of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (1980-1982).

Cecilio has held private and governmental office. He was corporate lawyer of I.C.A. and Aurrerá; Commercial Director of the Franc-Mexican
partnership “Corporative Industrial Fishing” and General Director of the Franc-Mexican partnership Pescado de Colima SA. Internationally, Cecilio Garza has been Executive Secretary of the Fertica Unit for the Productivity in Central America and Panama, based in San José, Costa Rica.

In 1990, representative in France of the National Bank of Foreign Trade, based in Paris and contender in his functions for Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria.

In 1995 he was appointed Ambassador of Mexico to the Republics of Korea and Mongolia. Immediately upon finishing his term he was posted as the Ambassador of Mexico to the People's Republic of China where he remained until 2002.

He has been Undersecretary of Commerce and Tourism and General Coordinator of Institutional Connection the Government of the State of Mexico and until November 2003, General Coordinator of the Biarritz Forum, in Valle de Bravo, México. He has been member of the Mexico-France Committee of the Mexican Enterprise Council for International Matters (today COMCE), Vice-president of the Franc-Mexican Camera of Commerce and Industry and Advisor of the Alliance Francaise.

He has published several essays on economics and specialized articles in the Mexican Magazine of Foreign Policy. He coordinated the publication of two bilingual books about the relationship between Mexico and the Republic of Korea and Mexico and the People's Republic of China. He also has been an invited speaker in more than ten countries and in 1997 the Government of South Korea decorated him with the Order Muhumwa, the highest distinction granted to a foreigner.

In the tourism field, Ambassador Garza performed as Undersecretary of the State of Mexico. He consulted for the Maria Isabel Sheraton hotel and the Fiesta Palace hotel (today Fiesta Americana). Currently he is an advisor to the North American chain, Rosewood in its project of more than $250 million dollars in San Miguel de Allende. He also continues to assist the state government of Chiapas, in tourist and foreign investment matters.

He manages Namuh SA de CV and Lannatai, SA, both companies dedicated to the commerce with Asia, and RMI SC, political and economic consultant's office of international lobbying. He was born in November 1952, is married with three children and speaks Spanish, English and French.