El Colegio de México
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| Established: | 1940 |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Javier Garciadiego Dantán |
| Location: | Mexico City, D.F., Mexico |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | colmex.mx |
El Colegio de México (commonly known as Colmex, English: The College of Mexico) is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in the social sciences and the humanities. It is also considered one of Mexico's think tanks.
The campus is located in a purpose-built and architecturally striking building on the southern fringes of Mexico City, in Tlalpan borough.
[edit] Notable alumni
Politicians
- Marcelo Ebrard, current Head of Government of the Federal District
- Jaime Serra Puche, cabinet member under the Carlos Salinas and Ernesto Zedillo administrations.
- Sócrates Rizzo, former Governor of Nuevo León.
Diplomats
- Patricia Espinosa, current Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
- Arturo Sarukhán, current Mexican ambassador to the United States.
- Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, former ambassador of Mexico to the UN Security Council.
- Rosario Green, Secretary of Foreign Affairs during the Zedillo administration.
Other
- Enrique Krauze, historian.
- Denise Dresser, political analyst and writer.
- Janet Dudley-Eshbach, current president of Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD.
- Lauro Zavala, narratologist.
[edit] Notable faculty
- Alfonso Reyes
- Daniel Cosío Villegas
- Mario Ojeda Gómez
- Víctor Urquidi
- Rafael Segovia Canosa
- Lorenzo Meyer
- José Luis Lezama
- Antonio Alatorre
- Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, cabinet member under the Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado administration.
- Carlos Tello Macías, cabinet member under the José López Portillo administration.
- Natividad González Parás, current governor of Nuevo León.
- Sergio Aguayo
- Soledad Loaeza
- Bernardo Sepulveda
- Rodolfo Stavenhagen
- Luis F. Aguilar Villanueva
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