Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores (b. October 17, 1959 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He is a former mayor of Ciudad Victoria and the current governor of Tamaulipas (2004 – 2010).

Hernández Flores received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies.

After working several years as a public contractor in Golfo Laguna, S.A. and managing the political campaign of Francisco Labastida in Tamaulipas, he was elected mayor of Ciudad Victoria, the state capital. In 2004 he was elected governor of the state with 61% of the vote.

One of the Eugenio Hernandez' main goals as Governor is to position Tamaulipas as the center for high-tech research in Mexico, specifically for Information Technology (IT). He also aims to increase the quantity and quality of available high-value-added jobs in the state and provide an ideal environment that fosters collaboration between private enterprise, the research community, anduniversities in the region. In pursuit of this goal, Gov. Hernandez inaugurated on 12-NOV-2009 the Science and Technology Park of Tamaulipas in the capital city of Ciudad Victoria, the first and only technology park of its kind in Mexico dedicated exclusively to IT.

Hernández is married to Adriana González and has four children: Ana Roberta, Eugenio, Fabiola and Camila.

[edit] External links

• (Spanish) Government of Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández
• Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Tamaulipas

Preceded by Tomás Yarrington

Governor of Tamaulipas 2005 — Present

Succeeded by Incumbent

Current Mexican State Governors
Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés Colima: Silverio Cavazos Durango: Ismael Hernández Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez	Guerrero: Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca Hidalgo: Miguel Osorio Chong Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez State of México: Enrique Peña Nieto Michoacán: Leonel Godoy Rangel Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame Castillo Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez Nuevo León: Natividad González Parás Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Puebla: Mario Plutarco Marín Torres Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón	Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar Padilla Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías Tabasco: Andrés Rafael Granier Melo Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco Zacatecas: Amalia García

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