Consul General Andres Chao Ebergenyi

About the Consulate General of Mexico in Denver
The Consulate General of Mexico in Denver was established in 1893, 17 years after Colorado became the 38th state of the United States of America (USA). It was the first Consulate established in the state.  In 1893, local businessman William N. Byers, on behalf of Denver’s Chamber of Commerce, sent a letter to Mexican President Porfirio Diaz asking for the establishment of a Mexican Consulate to ease commercial relations.

Currently, the Consulate General of Mexico in Denver serves the communities living in Colorado’s 63 counties and Wyoming’s East 13 counties.

Mexico in Colorado and Colorado in Mexico
Mexico and Colorado have a close economic relation. In 2007, Mexico was ranked as the second largest market for goods from Colorado. In 2007, exports to Mexico from Colorado reached $949.9 million dollars, while imports from Mexico from January to September 2007 were more $550 million dollars. In 2007, there were an estimated 3,005 jobs in Colorado that were directly related to its exports of manufactured goods to Mexico.

Every year, the Consulate General of Mexico in Denver issues more than 7,000 documents to Mexicans who live in the area and foreigners who want to visit or do business in Mexico.

About the Consul General
Andres Chao was appointed Consul General of Mexico in Denver by President Felipe Calderon and ratified by the Mexican senate on March 2011.

Consul Chao holds a degree in communications from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Metropolitan Autonomous University) and has post-graduate studies in business management from INAP.

In 2006, he opened the Consulate of Mexico in Little Rock, the first diplomatic representation in the state of Arkansas where he was Consul of Mexico until June 2011. From 2004 to 2006, he was the Press Attaché at the Consulate General of Mexico in New York.

He worked in 2004 at the Office of the President of Mexico as the Coordinator for National Media Relations. In 2002 he was appointed as the Permanent Representative to Europe at the Embassy of Mexico in The Netherlands.  In December of 2000 he worked at the Office of the President of Mexico as his Private Secretary.

He was born in Mexico City. He is married and has 3 children.