23 Notable alumni of
Metropolitan Autonomous University
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Metropolitan Autonomous University is 1511th in the world, 63rd in Latin America, and 7th in Mexico by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from Metropolitan Autonomous University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Diego Luna
- Occupations
- film producerfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander is a Mexican actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Cassian Andor in Rogue One (2016) and its prequel series Andor (2022–2025), for which he was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.
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Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller is a Mexican writer, journalist, researcher, and the wife of the 65th president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Alfonso Durazo Montaño
- Enrolled in Metropolitan Autonomous University
- 1982-1986 graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- lawyercivil engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Francisco Alfonso Durazo Montaño is a Mexican politician who served as chief spokesman and private secretary of President Vicente Fox. Representing the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), he is the current governor of Sonora.
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Rosario Robles
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- politician
- Biography
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María del Rosario Robles Berlanga is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of Social Development in the cabinet of President Enrique Peña Nieto. She also was substitute Head of Government of the Federal District (Mayor of Mexico City) when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigned from the post to run in the 2000 presidential election. She was the first female mayor of Mexico City.
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Juan Villoro
- Occupations
- children's writernovelistsociologistjournalisttranslator
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Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among a wider readership has grown since receiving the Herralde Prize for his novel El testigo.
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Clara Brugada
- Occupations
- economistcivil servantpolitician
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Clara Marina Brugada Molina is a Mexican politician and economist serving as the head of government of Mexico City after winning the 2024 election. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), she formerly served as mayor of the borough of Iztapalapa and as a federal and district legislator.
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Carla Estrada
- Occupations
- television producer
- Biography
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Carla Patricia Estrada Guitrón is a Mexican television producer, one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America.
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Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez
- Enrolled in Metropolitan Autonomous University
- 1985-1989 graduated with licentiate in economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez is a Mexican economist and former member of the Cabinet of Mexico designated as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to replace Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías on July 9, 2019, ratified on July 18, 2019, by the Chamber of Deputies.
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Irma Eréndira Sandoval
- Enrolled in Metropolitan Autonomous University
- Graduated with licentiate in sociology
- Occupations
- academicpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Irma Eréndira Sandoval Ballesteros is a Mexican politician and scholar, expert in public administration and corruption control. In 2018 she was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as head of the Ministry of Public Administration. Prior to her designation, in 2016, she was elected member of Mexico's City Constituent Assembly, where she was vice-coordinator of Morena's parliamentary fraction and secretary of the Committee for Good Governance, Fight against Corruption and Responsibilities of Public Servants.
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Jorge Antonio Guerrero
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Jorge Antonio Guerrero is a Mexican actor born on August 11, 1987. He is most noted for his performance as Fermín in the 2018 film Roma, for which he was an Ariel Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 61st Ariel Awards in 2019. He has also appeared in the television series Luis Miguel: The Series, Narcos: Mexico, Crime Diaries: The Candidate, Sitiados: México and Hernán, and in the film Drunken Birds. He received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021, and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, for Drunken Birds.
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Dolores Padierna
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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María de los Dolores Padierna Luna is a Mexican politician. A founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), she left the party in September 2017. She later joined the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
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Rafael Tovar y de Teresa
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- civil servantlawyerdiplomatwriter
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Rafael Tovar y de Teresa was a Mexican diplomat, lawyer, scholar and historian. He was ambassador of Mexico to Italy between 2001 and 2007 and the second president of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), a position he held on three separate occasions until the Council became the Secretariat of Culture in the cabinet of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2015). He was also president of the Organizing Committee for the Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the start of the National Independence movement and the Centenary of the start of the Mexican Revolution between September 2007 and October 2008.
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Elisa Loncon
- Enrolled in Metropolitan Autonomous University
- Graduated with master's degree in linguistics
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterlinguistresearcheressayist
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Elisa Loncón Antileo is a Mapuche linguist and indigenous rights activist in Chile. In 2021, Loncón was elected as one of the representatives of the Mapuche people for the Chilean Constitutional Convention. Following in the inauguration of the body, Loncón was elected President of the Constitutional Convention. This role, along with her academic career, has placed her at the center of public attention and controversy. In particular, her formal education became a subject of public scrutiny when the Council for Transparency (CPLT) demanded the release of her academic records, igniting a debate about the intersection of race, class, and public transparency in Chile.
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Ricardo Patiño
- Enrolled in Metropolitan Autonomous University
- Graduated with licentiate in economics
- Occupations
- diplomateconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Ricardo Armando Patiño Aroca is an Ecuadorian politician who served as minister of foreign affairs from 2010 to 2016, under the government of President Rafael Correa. Previously he was minister of finance and minister of the coast. He is one of the ideologists of The Citizens' Revolution, which, with Correa, wanted to gradually introduce a democratic socialist government in Ecuador. On 4 March 2016, he was named as defense minister by President Correa.
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Tessy María López Goerne
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- academic
- Biography
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Tessy María López Goerne is a Mexican solid-state chemist, professor, researcher, academic, and popular science communicator. She has specialized in the fields of nanotechnology and nanomedicine, as well as being a pioneer in catalytic nanomedicine. She directs the Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Laboratories at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco (UAM-X) plant and the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery.
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Lucrecia Hernández Mack
- Enrolled in Metropolitan Autonomous University
- Graduated with doctorate in social medicine
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Lucrecia María Hernández Mack was a Guatemalan physician and politician who served a deputy of the Congress from 2020 until her death in 2023. In July 2016, President Jimmy Morales nominated Hernández Mack as the minister of Public Health and Social Assistance, becoming the first woman to serve in that position. In 2017, she resigned from her position in protest over President Morales' order to expel United Nations anti-corruption investigator Iván Velásquez Gómez. A member of Movimiento Semilla, she served in the Congress after winning in the 2019 General Election.
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Ilan Stavans
- Enrolled in Metropolitan Autonomous University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherlexicographerwritercomics writerlinguist
- Biography
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Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-born Jewish-American writer and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. He is the author of Quixote (2015) and a contributor to the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010). He was the host of the syndicated PBS show Conversations with Ilan Stavans, which ran from 2001 to 2006.
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Mónica Lavín
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- writerliterary criticjournalistscreenwriter
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Mónica Lavín is a Mexican author of eleven novels, various books of nonfiction, and thirteen short story collections, notable among them Ruby Tuesday no ha muerto (1996 recipient of the Gilberto Owen National Literary Prize); Uno no sabe (2003, finalist for the Antonin Artaud award); and her most recent collection, La corredora de Cuemanco y el aficionado a Schubert (Punto de Lectura, 2008).
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Beatriz Mojica Morga
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Beatriz Mojica Morga is a Mexican politician. At different times she has been affiliated with both the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
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Ramón Montalvo Hernández
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- politician
- Biography
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Ramón Montalvo Hernández is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRD. From September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2015, he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico. He also served as the Municipal President (Mayor) of Valle de Chalco from 2006 to 2009 and again from 2016 to 2019.
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Verónica Escobar Romo
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Verónica Escobar Romo is a Mexican lawyer and politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. In 2012 she served as Mayor of Acapulco succeeding Manuel Añorve Baños.
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Maritza M. Buendía
- Occupations
- essayist
- Biography
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Maritza M. Buendía is a Mexican writer, winner of the Gilberto Owen National Literature Prize (2012) and the José Revueltas Bellas Artes Prize for Literary Essay (2011).
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Rodolfo Lacy Tamayo
- Occupations
- civil servantengineer
- Biography
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Rodolfo Lacy Tamayo is an environmental engineer and a civil servant of Mexico. Since April 2022, he was appointed Special Envoy on Climate Matters to the United Nations as Director for Climate Action and Environment for Latin America at the OECD.
