Gustavo Petricioli Iturbide (19 August 1928 – 9 October 1998) was a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance (1986–1988) in the last cabinet of Miguel de la Madrid and as Mexican ambassador to the United States (January 1989 – 1993).^[3]

Petricioli was the son of Carlos Petricioli Alarcón and Ada Iturbide Preciat.^[4] He received a high school diploma from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), a bachelor's degree in Economics from the ITAM (1952) and a master's degree in the same discipline from Yale University (1958).^[1] He lectured on Monetary Theory at both ITAM and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and joined the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in 1952.^[4]

Before joining the federal cabinet Petricioli served as undersecretary of Finance (1970–74), as deputy director of the Bank of Mexico (1975–1976), and as director-general of Nacional Financiera (1982–1986).^[1] As secretary of Finance, he co-authored the Pact for Stability and Economic Growth (in Spanish: Pacto para la estabilidad y el crecimiento económico), a national strategy to control the fiscal deficit and inflation in coordination with the private sector.^[4]

Petricioli died of a heart attack on 9 October 1998 at Los Angeles Hospital, in Mexico City.^[3][4] He married Rosa Blanca Morales Murphy and they had two children: Gustavo and Ada. After their divorce, he remarried to Maria Luisa Castellón, mother of his next two children Hugo and Maria Luisa. Maria Luisa has two children now; Luisa and Mateo. In his honor, a remembrance book, El complejo arte de vivir: homenaje a Gustavo Petricioli, was published by Editorial Porrúa and a statue was erected at ITAM; his alma mater.^[5]