Location Lomas De Chapultepec, Distrito Federal, Mexico Regions Latin America Gender Male
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Manuel Arango was co-founder and partner of a large general retailing business, today known as Wal-Mart México. During the last thirty years he has concentrated his business activities in real estate development and is currently the Chairman of CostaBaja Resort & Spa, located in the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
He founded and
remains actively involved with the following nonprofit organizations: Compartir Fundación Social, the Mexican Center for Philanthropy, the Xochitla Foundation, the Mexican Foundation for Environmental Education and Caracol de Plata.
His efforts helped establish Distintivo ESR, a program of the Mexican Center for Philanthropy that publicly recognizes companies that excel in their social, environmental and community efforts.
In addition to these activities, Arango is the Honorary Chairman of the Board of Water, and serves on the Board of Directors of diverse institutions including the Centro Mario Molina, the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas and Transparencia Mexicana, among others.
Internationally, he is a member of the Foro Iberoamérica, the Advisory Board of the Encuentros Iberoamericanos de la Sociedad Civil and the International Council of the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, in Madrid, Spain. During the past two decades he served on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foundations, the World Resources Institute, Public Radio International, the Institute of the Americas and Callaway Gardens, among others.
Arango has produced several documentaries, including Sentinels of Silence, a film on the pre-Hispanic monuments of Mexico for which in 1971, he received two Academy Awards. In 2003, he produced Clipperton, Isla de la Pasión, which tells the story of a remote island that Mexico lost to France as a result of an international arbitration in 1931.
