Benjamín Clariond

Benjamín Clariond Reyes-Retana is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party who has served as a federal deputy,
municipal president of Monterrey and as interim governor of the state of Nuevo León after the resignation of Sócrates Rizzo.
In 2006 he ran for municipal president of San Pedro Garza García but lost against the PAN candidate Fernando Margáin.
Clariond is the grandson of French immigrant Jacques Antoine Clariond founder of Industrias Monterrey. He has served as general director of IMSATEC.