Alberto Emiliano Cinta Martínez (born in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist, entrepreneur and politician who is a founder and became the first general secretary of the New Alliance Party (PANAL). He ran as the PANAL's candidate for Mayor of Mexico City Head of Government of the Federal District in the 2006 Federal District election. He has been a Congressman, public servant, university professor and entrepreneur. He studied economics at the ITAM in Mexico City, and holds two master's degrees from both the Ecole Nationale d'Administratuon (ENA, Paris) and Harvard (KSG, Massachusetts). He has been a deputy at the Chamber of Deputies for the Green Party and president of the Special Commission of Competitiveness (2009-2012) and also a deputy for Mexico City (2012-2015). Since 2001 he is the founder and chairman of a leading Mexican hospitality group that operates more than fifty high-end restaurants, nightclubs, business clubs, and concert halls. In 2014 his group started operations in the US with the opening of its first restaurant (Cantina La Veinte), in Miami.