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El Colegio de México 
Established 1940 Type Public President Javier Garciadiego Location Mexico City, D.F., Mexico Campus Urban Website colmex.mx El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English: The School of Mexico) is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in the social sciences and the humanities. 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, in Tlalpan borough.
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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 named Alfonso Reyes to the presidentship of the "Casa de España en México". Reyes would be president of the "Colegio" until his death. Historian Daniel Cosío Villegas 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, 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.
- Claude Heller, current ambassador of Mexico to the UN
- 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.
- Héctor Aguilar Camín, writer.
- Javier Trevino, Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications & Public Affairs of CEMEX and former Deputy Foreign Minister.
- Denise Dresser, political analyst and writer.
- Janet Dudley-Eshbach, current president of Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD.
- Andrés Reséndez, historian
- Lauro Zavala, narratologist.
Notable faculty
- See El Colegio de México faculty
- Alfonso Reyes
- Daniel Cosío Villegas
- Jorge Fernández
- Mario Ojeda Gómez
- Víctor Urquidi
- Rafael Segovia Canosa
- Lorenzo Meyer
- Mauricio Merino
- 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 the state of Nuevo León.
- Sergio Aguayo
- Soledad Loaeza
- Bernardo Sepúlveda
- Rodolfo Stavenhagen
- Luis F. Aguilar Villanueva
- Francisco Gil Villegas
- Margit Frenk
- Francisco Segovia
- Saurabh Dube
External links
Coordinates: 19°18′14″N 99°12′28″W / 19.30389°N 99.20778°W
Categories:- El Colegio de México
- Educational institutions established in 1940
- 1940 establishments
- Mexico education stubs
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