El Colegio de México
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El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English
English language
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: The School of Mexico) is a prestigious Mexican
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 institute of higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...

, specializing in teaching and research in the social sciences
Social sciences
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 and the humanities
Humanities
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. It has one of Mexico's leading libraries.

The campus is located in a purpose-built and architecturally striking building on the southern fringes of Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, in Tlalpan
Tlalpan
Tlalpan is one of the sixteen administrative boroughs of the Federal District of Mexico City. It is the largest borough, with over eighty percent under conservation as forest and other ecologically sensitive area. The rest, almost all of it on the northern edge, has been urban since the mid 20th...

 borough.

History

It arose from an organization of Spaniard exiles called "Casa de España en México" (House of Spain in Mexico). In march of 1939, Lazaro Cardenas
Lázaro Cárdenas
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.-Early life:Lázaro Cárdenas was born on May 21, 1895 in a lower-middle class family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacán. He supported his family from age 16 after the death of his father...

 named Alfonso Reyes
Alfonso Reyes
Alfonso Reyes Ochoa was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat.-Early life:Alfonso Reyes parents were Bernardo Reyes and Aurelia Ochoa...

 to the presidentship of the "Casa de España en México". Reyes would be president of the "Colegio" until his death. Historian Daniel Cosío Villegas
Daniel Cosío Villegas
Daniel Cosío Villegas was a prominent Mexican economist, essayist, historian and diplomat.Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he received a B.A. in Law from the National University and took several courses in economics at...

 played an important role in its institutionalization and the Colegio's library bears his name.

Notable alumni

See El Colegio de México alumni


Politicians
  • Marcelo Ebrard
    Marcelo Ebrard
    Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón is the current Head of Government of the Federal District since December 5, 2006. He is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Party of the Democratic Revolution who served as Secretary-General of the former Mexican Federal District Department, minister of public...

    , current Head of Government of the Federal District
    Head of Government of the Federal District
    The Head of Government wields executive power in the Mexican Federal District.The Head of Government serves a six-year term, running concurrently with that of the President of the Republic....

  • Jaime Serra Puche
    Jaime Serra Puche
    Jaime José Serra Puche is a Mexican economist. He is Chairman of SAI Consulting and Principal of NAFTA Fund...

    , cabinet member under the Carlos Salinas
    Carlos Salinas
    Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Earlier in his career he worked in the Budget Secretariat all the way up to Secretary...

     and Ernesto Zedillo
    Ernesto Zedillo
    Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party...

     administrations.
  • Sócrates Rizzo
    Sócrates Rizzo
    Sócrates Cuauhtémoc Rizzo García is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He is a former federal Congressman , mayor of Monterrey and former governor of Nuevo León Rizzo García is the son of Neftalí Rizzo Rizzo and Jovita García Decanini...

    , former Governor of Nuevo León
    Governor of Nuevo León
    The Mexican state of Nuevo León has been governed by more than a hundred individuals in its history, who have had various titles and degrees of responsibility depending on the prevailing political regime of the time....

    .


Diplomats
  • Patricia Espinosa
    Patricia Espinosa
    Patricia Espinosa Cantellano is a Mexican diplomat. She is a former ambassador to Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Slovakia and currently serves as Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón....

    , current Secretary of Foreign Affairs
    Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)
    In Mexico, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs is a member of the federal executive cabinet with responsibility for implementing the country's foreign policy. The secretary is appointed by the President of the Republic and heads the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs ...

    .
  • Arturo Sarukhán
    Arturo Sarukhán
    Arturo Sarukhan Casamitjana is a Mexican diplomat. He is the current Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, a former Consul General at New York City, and served as foreign policy coordinator in Felipe Calderón's presidential campaign and transition team .His grandfather, Artur Sarukhanian, was...

    , current Mexican ambassador to the United States.
  • Claude Heller
    Claude Heller
    Claude Heller Rouassant is the current Ambassador for Mexico to the United Nations and the Security Council. He has been Mexico's Ambassador to France, Cuba, Austria and Switzerland...

    , current ambassador of Mexico to the UN
  • Adolfo Aguilar Zínser
    Adolfo Aguilar Zínser
    Adolfo Aguilar Zínser was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq....

    , former ambassador of Mexico to the UN Security Council.
  • Rosario Green
    Rosario Green
    María del Rosario Green Macías is a Mexican economist, diplomat and politician.She is a former Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ernesto Zedillo María del Rosario Green Macías (b. 1941 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist, diplomat and politician.She is a former Secretary of...

    , Secretary of Foreign Affairs during the Zedillo administration
    Ernesto Zedillo
    Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party...

    .


Other
  • Enrique Krauze
    Enrique Krauze
    Enrique Krauze Kleinbort is a Mexican historian, essayist and publisher. He is president of the publisher Editorial Clío and director of the cultural magazine ....

    , historian.
  • Héctor Aguilar Camín
    Héctor Aguilar Camín
    Héctor Aguilar Camín is a Mexican writer, journalist and historian.Aguilar Camín graduated from the Ibero-American University with a bachelor's degree in information sciences and techniques and received a doctorate's degree in history from El Colegio de México...

    , writer.
  • Javier Trevino
    Javier Treviño
    Javier Treviño Cantu is the Secretario General de Gobierno of the Mexican State of Nuevo Leon . He was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at CEMEX from March 2001 to September 2009, and served as the General Coordinator for the Transition Team of Nuevo Leon's...

    , Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications & Public Affairs of CEMEX and former Deputy Foreign Minister.
  • Denise Dresser
    Denise Dresser
    Denise Eugenia Dresser Guerra is a Mexican political analyst, writer, and university professor. She is currently a faculty member of the Department of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México , where she teaches courses such as Comparative Politics, Political Economy,...

    , political analyst and writer.
  • Janet Dudley-Eshbach
    Janet Dudley-Eshbach
    Janet Dudley-Eshbach, Ph.D. became president of Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland in June 2000. She is the eighth president and the first woman to hold that office in the seventy-five year history of the university. In 2005, she was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women in 2005 by the...

    , current president of Salisbury University
    Salisbury University
    Salisbury University is a public university in Salisbury, Maryland.According to U.S. News and World Report's 2009 America's Best Colleges index, "In guidebooks and surveys by U.S...

     in Salisbury, MD.
  • Andrés Reséndez
    Andrés Reséndez
    Andres Resendez is an American historian.Andres Resendez is a historian at the University of California, Davis. His specialties are Mexican history, early exploration and colonization of the Americas, and borderlands history.-Books:...

    , historian
  • Lauro Zavala
    Lauro Zavala
    Lauro Zavala is a scholarly researcher, known for his work on literary theory, semiotics and film, especially in relation to irony, metafiction and micro-narratives...

    , narratologist.

Notable faculty

See El Colegio de México faculty
  • Alfonso Reyes
    Alfonso Reyes
    Alfonso Reyes Ochoa was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat.-Early life:Alfonso Reyes parents were Bernardo Reyes and Aurelia Ochoa...

  • Daniel Cosío Villegas
    Daniel Cosío Villegas
    Daniel Cosío Villegas was a prominent Mexican economist, essayist, historian and diplomat.Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he received a B.A. in Law from the National University and took several courses in economics at...

  • Jorge Fernández
    Jorge Fernández
    Jorge Fernández may refer to:*Jorge Ariel Fernández , Argentine association footballer who plays for FC Gossau*Jorge Fernández Madinabeitia , Basque TV presenter and model. Former Mister Spain 1999...

  • Mario Ojeda Gómez
    Mario Ojeda Gómez
    Mario Ojeda Gómez is a Mexican scholar and internationalist. Professor Emeritus at El Colegio de México . Investigador Nacional Emérito of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores...

  • Víctor Urquidi
    Víctor Urquidi
    Víctor Luis Urquidi Bingham was a Mexican civil servant, economist, and academic.- Biography:...

  • Rafael Segovia Canosa
  • Lorenzo Meyer
  • Mauricio Merino
  • Antonio Alatorre
    Antonio Alatorre
    Antonio Alatorre Chávez was a Mexican writer, philologist and translator, famous due to his influential academic essays about Spanish literature, and because of his book Los 1001 años de la lengua española -Early years:Antonio Alatorre was born in Autlán de la Grana, Jalisco...

  • Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, cabinet member under the Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado administration.
  • Carlos Tello Macías
    Carlos Tello Macías
    Carlos Tello Macías is a Mexican socialist-oriented economist, academic and diplomat. He is a former ambassador to Cuba, Portugal and Russia and a former Secretary of Budget and Planning in the cabinet of President José López Portillo...

    , cabinet member under the José López Portillo
    José López Portillo
    José López Portillo y Pacheco was the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.Born in Mexico City, López Portillo studied Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before beginning his political career with the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1959.He held several positions in the...

     administration.
  • Natividad González Parás
    Natividad González Parás
    José Natividad González Parás is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He is a former federal deputy and former governor of Nuevo León He is also married to Cristina Maiz...

    , current governor of the state of Nuevo León
    Nuevo León
    Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...

    .
  • Sergio Aguayo
    Sergio Aguayo
    Sergio Aguayo Quezada is a Mexican academic and human rights activist. He has been a professor and researcher for El Colegio de México since 1977 and a member of the Mexican Researchers National System -Biography:Sergio Aguayo is a Researcher at Colegio de México and has taught at the Centro...

  • Soledad Loaeza
  • Bernardo Sepúlveda
    Bernardo Sepúlveda
    Bernardo Sepúlveda may refer to:*Bernardo Sepúlveda Gutiérrez , Mexican physician, member of the Colegio Nacional* Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor , Mexican diplomat, foreign secretary, judge of the International Court of Justice...

  • Rodolfo Stavenhagen
    Rodolfo Stavenhagen
    Rodolfo Stavenhagen is a Mexican sociologist. He is a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México and former Deputy Director General of UNESCO. In 2001 he was appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human...

  • Luis F. Aguilar Villanueva
  • Francisco Gil Villegas
    Francisco Gil Villegas
    Francisco Gil Villegas Montiel is a Mexican academic, professor and publisher.Francisco Gil Villegas received a bachelor's degree in International Relations and a Masters in Political Science from El Colegio de México, a Doctorate in Political Science from the UNAM and a Doctorate in Political...

  • Margit Frenk
  • Francisco Segovia
  • Saurabh Dube
    Saurabh Dube
    Saurabh Dube is an Indian scholar whose work combines history and anthropology, archival and field research, and subaltern studies and postcolonial perspectives. After teaching at the University of Delhi, since 1995 he is Professor of History at the Center of Asian and African Studies at El Colegio...


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