93 Notable alumni of
Monterrey Institute of Technology
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Monterrey Institute of Technology is 599th in the world, 16th in Latin America, and 2nd in Mexico by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 93 notable alumni from Monterrey Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Enrique Peña Nieto
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Enrique Peña Nieto, commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he previously served as Governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011, local deputy from 2003 to 2004, and Secretary of Administration from 2000 to 2002.
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Roberto Palazuelos
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- actorAbogadobusinessperson
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Roberto Palazuelos Badeaux, better known as Roberto Palazuelos ( Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto palaˈswelos]) or "El Diamante Negro" (The Black Diamond), is a Mexican actor, model and producer; best known for his work in Mexican telenovelas.
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego
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- international forum participantentrepreneur
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Ricardo Benjamín Salinas Pliego is a Mexican businessman, founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a corporate conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail.
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Alfonso Durazo Montaño
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- 2007-2011 graduated with doctorate in public policy
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- politiciancivil engineerlawyer
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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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Justine Pasek
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- beauty pageant contestantconcept artist
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Yostin Lissette "Justine" Pasek Patiño is a Polish-Panamanian model, philanthropist and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2002. Originally the first runner-up at the Miss Universe 2002 competition, Pasek became the first ever runner-up to be crowned the winner after the dethronement of original winner Oxana Fedorova.
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Hanna Jaff
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- human rights activistinfluencertelevision personalitysocialite
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Hanna, Marchioness of Guadiaro; is an American-born Mexican television personality who runs the non-profit Jaff Foundation for Education. She is married to Francisco de Borja Queipo, 6th Marquess of Guadiaro and eldest son of the 12th Count of Toreno.
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Mauricio Fernández Garza
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Mauricio Fernández Garza is a Mexican politician, businessman and collector directly related to the Fernández Ruiloba wealthy and prominent family; owners of PYOSA (Pigmentos Y Oxidos SA). He was the mayor of San Pedro Garza García, former senator and current member of the board of Grupo Alfa, a Monterrey-based chemical, food and auto-parts producer. He is well known for his art contribution to Nuevo León.
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Caloncho
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- Graduated with international relations
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- composermusicianactivistsinger
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Óscar Alfonso Castro, better known as Caloncho, is a Mexican musician and singer.
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Lorenzo Zambrano
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- chief executive officerbusinessperson
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Lorenzo Hormisdas Zambrano Treviño was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist. He took over Cemex, a regional cement company founded by his grandfather, and transformed it into one of the largest cement producers in the world by the time of his death. Zambrano also financed several cultural initiatives across Latin America and chaired, from 1997 to 2012, the board of trustees of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), one of the largest private universities in the region. He also co-owned Axtel, an important Mexican telecommunications company.
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Alfonso Romo
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- businesspersonengineerinternational forum participant
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Alfonso Carlos Romo Garza, known as Alfonso Romo, is a Monterrey businessman, agro-industrialist. He founded the Opción Ciudadana (Citizen Option) party in 2005. He is the owner of VECTOR Casa de Bolsa, the largest fund management company in Latin America.
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Carlos Manuel Joaquín González
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- politician
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Carlos Manuel Joaquín González is a Mexican politician, the governor of the state of Quintana Roo. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Quintana Roo. In March 2023, he was appointed Ambassador of Mexico to Canada.
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José Horacio Gómez
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopphilosopher
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José Horacio Gómez Velasco is a Mexican-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He became the fifth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California in 2011. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Denver in Colorado from 2001 to 2004 and as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio in Texas from 2004 to 2010.
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Marion Reimers
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Licentiate in communication
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- sports journalistprofessorcommentatortelevision presenterjournalist
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Marion Renate Reimers Tusche is a Mexican sports journalist, analyst, and television host. She is currently signed to TNT Sports Mexico. She is best known for her tenure with Fox Sports Mexico and Fox Deportes, where she anchored the nightly sports news program Central Fox from 2008 to 2021. She is also the co-founder and president of the non-profit, non-government organization Versus.
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Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías
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- economistmathematician
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Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías is a Mexican Professor of Economics at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses. He is a National Researcher and a member of the Mexican Academy of Science. He served as the Secretary of Finance for the Mexico City government from 2000 to 2003. He is also an award-winning poet.
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Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- In 2011 graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Marina del Pilar Avila Olmeda is a Mexican lawyer, politician, and member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) political party, currently serving as Governor of Baja California, she is the first woman as governor. She was formerly a Federal Representative for Baja California's 2nd electoral district at the LXIV Legislature in the Chamber of Deputies of the General Congress of the United Mexican States, which she fulfilled from 2018 to 2019, also the first woman as Mayor of Mexicali, from 2019 to 2021.
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Eugenio Garza Lagüera
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- bankerentrepreneurbusinessperson
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Eugenio Garza Lagüera was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Femsa, Latin America's largest beverage corporation. In February 2008 he was laureated with the Business Social Responsibility Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a nonpartisan institution created by the U.S. Congress within the Smithsonian Institution.
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Carlos Gutierrez
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- politicianentrepreneur
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Carlos Miguel Gutierrez is an American former CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce. He is currently a Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of EmPath. Gutierrez is a former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company. He served as the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009.
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Hugo Salinas Price
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- philanthropistbusinessperson
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Hugo Salinas Price is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Mexico's Elektra retail chain.
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Tomás Yarrington
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- politician
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Tomás Jesús Yarrington Ruvalcaba is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He held office as the Mayor of Matamoros from 1993 to 1995, and the Governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005. Yarrington sought nomination for the presidential elections for the PRI in 2005.
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Ernesto Ruffo Appel
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- politician
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Ernesto Ruffo Appel is a Mexican politician, who served as the 10th Governor of Baja California from 1989 to 1995. A member of the National Action Party (PAN), Ruffo was the first state governor not affiliated with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929.
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Tatiana Clouthier Carrillo
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- politician
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Tatiana Clouthier Carillo is a Mexican educator, politician and writer. From December 8, 2020 to October 6, 2022, she served as the head of the Secretariat of Economy of Mexico appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Clouthier came to national attention in Mexico as the 2018 presidential campaign manager for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Her work in social media for the campaign has been particularly recognized.
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Eduardo Bours
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- politicianbusinessperson
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José Eduardo Robinson Bours Castelo is a Mexican businessman who served as governor of Sonora under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI. He is a member of the Robinson Bours family which immigrated from the United States in the 19th century. Before being elected governor, he served as Senator representing his state in the Mexican Senate. In 2000, he won the primary election with 51% of the votes. Later he was elected Governor of his state in July 2003. His term ended in 2009 without the possibility of reelection.
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María Eugenia Campos Galván
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- politician
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María Eugenia Campos Galván, commonly known as Maru Campos, is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party (PAN) who serves as the current Governor of Chihuahua. From 2006 to 2009, she served as a deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Chihuahua.
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Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores
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- politician
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Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores, is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the mayor of Ciudad Victoria from 2001 to 2004 and Governor of the state of Tamaulipas from 2004 to 2010, and was also federal deputy in 2000 and coordinator of the Financial Committee of Tomas Yarrington during his campaign. On May 27, 2015, he was indicted on charges of money laundering alongside his brother-in-law Oscar Gomez Guerra by the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ).
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Gabino Cué Monteagudo
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- economistpolitician
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Gabino Cué Monteagudo is a Mexican politician. He was previously governor of the state of Oaxaca, and the first non-PRI winning candidate in the state in 80 years. He previously ran for governor in 2004, losing to Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the PRI-candidate and current outgoing state governor.
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Egidio Torre Cantú
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- politician
- Biography
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Egidio Torre Cantú is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as governor of Tamaulipas for the term 2011 through 2016.
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Fernando Elizondo Barragán
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- politician
- Biography
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Fernando Elizondo Barragán is a Mexican Politician, Lawyer, and Businessperson previously affiliated with the National Action Party. He was the interim governor of Nuevo León (2003), former Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox, and Nuevo León senator in the LX and LXI legislatures. Fernando Elizondo was born into an upper-class family formed by a prominent local politician, Eduardo Elizondo Lozano, and Laura Barragán. He completed most of his basic studies in Catholic institutions and graduated with honors from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León with a degree in law. In 1971 he received an MBA from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.
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Héctor García-Molina
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- university teachercomputer scientist
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Héctor García-Molina was a Mexican-American computer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was the advisor to Google co-founder Sergey Brin from 1993 to 1997 when Brin was a computer science student at Stanford.
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Manolo Jiménez Salinas
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- politician
- Biography
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Manolo Jiménez Salinas is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party who is the Governor of Coahuila under the alliance Va por México. He previously served as the mayor of Saltillo.
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Fernando Canales Clariond
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- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Fernando de Jesús Canales Clariond is a Mexican politician and businessman affiliated with the National Action Party PAN. He succeeded his cousin, Benjamín Clariond as governor of Nuevo León in 1997. He also served as Secretary of Economy and as Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of Vicente Fox.
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Cristina Mittermeier
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- scientistphotographer
- Biography
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Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier is a Mexican photographer, conservationist, biologist, and author.
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Rafael Pacchiano Alamán
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- politician
- Biography
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Rafael Pacchiano Alamán is a Mexican politician from the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico who is the current Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Querétaro.
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Macario Schettino
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Mexico - Occupations
- economist
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Macario Schettino is a Mexican economist and political analyst, who calls himself “dedicated to the analysis of reality.” He speaks and writes about what is happening in Mexico from a combined social, political and economic perspective.
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Maki Esther Ortíz Dominguez
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- politician
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Maki Esther Ortiz Domínguez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN). She currently serves as Mayoress of Reynosa, and she is the first woman in the history of the city elected to the position, she also became the first mayoress to be re-elected for a consecutive second term. She also served as Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tamaulipas. She also served as Deputy during the LIX Legislature.
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Enrique Martínez y Martínez
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- politiciandiplomat
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Enrique Martinez y Martinez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Revolutionary Institutional Party. He has served as Mexico's Ambassador to Cuba since 2016. He previously served as Governor of Coahuila from 2 December 1999 to 17 February 2005.
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Román Meyer Falcón
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- politician
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Román Guillermo Meyer Falcón is a Mexican politician and member of the National Regeneration Movement. He was appointed to the Cabinet of Mexico as Secretary of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in December 2018.
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Blanca Treviño
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- Graduated with data
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Blanca Avelina Treviño de Vega is president and executive director of Softtek, a Mexican information and communication technologies company, the largest independent service provider in Latin America.
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David Noel Ramírez Padilla
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David Noel Ramírez Padilla was the dean of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education university system (ITESM) which has thirty one campuses in various parts of Mexico. Ramirez's education and career as both an educator and administrator have all been around this university system, culminating to his former position beginning in January 2011. In addition, he has authored eight books, numerous articles, served as keynote speaker at various conferences and advised outside institutions on matters regarding accounting, finance and human development.
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Félix González Canto
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- economistpolitician
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Félix Arturo González Canto is a Mexican politician and economist, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). From 2005 until 2011 he was the governor of the state of Quintana Roo.
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Patricio Martínez García
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- politician
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Patricio Martínez García is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Martínez served as the Governor of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico, from 1998 until 2004.
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Luis Pazos
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- politicianlawyereconomist
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Luis Pazos is a Mexican economist, writer and politician. He has a degree in Economics and Administration from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey TEC), and a degree in Law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City. He studied public administration at New York University (NYU).
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Alejandra Lagunes
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- politician
- Biography
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Alejandra Lagunes Soto Ruiz is a Mexican Senator. She served as National Digital Strategy Coordinator for México's Office of the Presidency (2012-2018). She was Google Mexico co-founder worked for companies as a sales manager for both MSN and Yahoo. She also worked as press chief for the presidency of Ernesto Zedillo (1994–2000).
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Jorge Torres López
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- politician
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Jorge Juan Torres López is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Torres served as the Governor of Coahuila from January 4, 2011, until December 1, 2011.
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Álvaro Cueva
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- television criticjournalist
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Álvaro Cueva is a Mexican television critic and journalist who works in print, television and radio. When he began his career in the 1980s, Mexican newspapers were not interested in columns about television and he began writing about cinema. However, he eventually convinced newspapers to let him write about television, at first under a pseudonym. He briefly left writing when offered a co anchor position on the television show Ventaneando in 1997; however, he did not like the gossip aspect of the show and in the same year left, broke and in poor health. He returned to writing as a freelancer, writing columns and books which eventually led to steady work with the Milenio newspaper, which he still writes a daily column for. Professionally he has written over 3,000 articles in over thirty newspapers and magazines and still appears on television and does regular appearances on radio shows.
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Cristina Ferral
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- association football player
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Cristina del Carmen Ferral Montalván is a Mexican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga MX Femenil club Tigres UANL and the Mexico women's national team.
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Rafael Rangel Sostmann
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- In 1965 graduated with bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
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Rafael Rangel Sostmann is a Mexican engineer and academic who served as president of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) from 1985 to 2011. He is a recipient of several honorary degrees, awarded, among others, by Georgetown University (2008), the University of British Columbia (2003), Arizona State University (2004) and the Thunderbird School of Global Management (2009); serves in the board of the World Bank Institute and Cemex; and he is a member of the Global Agenda Council on Education Systems at the World Economic Forum. He announced his retirement as rector of the ITESM on June 21, 2010. On September 12, 2011, Salvador Alva Gómez was announced as the next rector of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM).
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Ismael Hernández
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- pentathletemodern pentathlete
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Ismael Marcelo Hernández Uscanga is a Mexican modern pentathlete. He won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, after having finished 23rd in the previous World Championships. He was awarded with the "Premio Nacional del Deporte" given by the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education in 2016.
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Héctor Murguía Lardizábal
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- 1971-1976 studied chemical engineer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Héctor Murguía Lardizábal was a Mexican politician. He was a Senator, Federal Deputy in the LXI Legislature and served as Mayor of Ciudad Juárez from 2004 to 2007 and 2010 to 2013.
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Ignacio Loyola Vera
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- politician
- Biography
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Ignacio Loyola Vera is a Mexican politician. A member of the National Action Party, he served as Governor of Querétaro from 1 October 1997 to 30 September 2003.
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Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape
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- economistuniversity teachercivil servant
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Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape is a Mexican economist. He served as chief economic advisor to President Vicente Fox and as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón since December 1, 2006 to August 6, 2008.
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Zeferino Torreblanca
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- politician
- Biography
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Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo is a Mexican politician previously affiliated with the PRD Party of the Democratic Revolution now affiliated with the PT (Labor Party) and former Governor of Guerrero. He is the first non PRI member to hold the position.
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Indira Kempis Martínez
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Licentiate in communication
- Graduated with master's degree in public policy and public administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Indira Kempis Martínez is a Mexican politician serving as a senator for the state of Nuevo León. A former member of Citizens' Movement (MC), Kempis became an independent in December 2023. In January 2024, she joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) as a senator within their caucus.
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Carmen Victoria Félix Chaidez
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- scientist
- Biography
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Carmen Victoria Félix Chaidez is a scientist, engineer, and the first Mexican to work on simulations for future Mars missions with space analogs. She has been credited in part for creating the Mexican Space Agency and promoting space-related careers in her native country. Her work has been recognized by her home state of Sinaloa and Quien magazine named her as one of 50 Mexicans transforming the country in 2017.
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Francisco de Paula Búrquez
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- politician
- Biography
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Francisco "Pancho" Búrquez Valenzuela is a Mexican politician and was member of the National Action Party (PAN) until his resignation in 2018. He is a senator in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sonora.
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Marcela Guerra Castillo
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- politician
- Biography
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Marcela Guerra Castillo is a Mexican politician from Nuevo León. She was a local deputy in the Congress of Nuevo León and twice federal deputy of the Congress of Mexico. From 2012 to 2018, she was a senator representing the state of Nuevo León in the LXII and LXIII Legislatures.
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Eviel Pérez Magaña
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eviel Pérez Magaña is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. After being the last Minister of Social Development from 2018 to 2019 with Enrique Peña Nieto administration, he currently dedicated to his private business and enterprises. Before being the head of the Ministry he was undersecretary of social development programs in the same Ministry. Previously he was Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Oaxaca in the Senate he was the president of the indigenous affairs commission. He also served as Deputy during the LXI Legislature and as municipal president of Tuxtepec.
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Víctor Oswaldo Fuentes Solís
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- 2013-2015 graduated with master's degree in government administration and public policy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Víctor Oswaldo Fuentes Solís is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. He currently serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nuevo León, and previously served in the Congress of Nuevo León.
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Heriberto Félix Guerra
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- politicianbusinesspersoneconomist
- Biography
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Jesús Heriberto Félix Guerra is a Mexican economist and entrepreneur invited to the policy since 2004, a supporter of the National Action Party. He graduated in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He served as Secretary of Social Development of Mexico by appointment of then President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa since December 9 of 2009 to November 30 of 2012.
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Isaac Farchi
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Licentiate in computing
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Isaac Farchi Sultán is a Guatemalan businessman and politician. He is the son of the businessman Nissim Farchi Finkelstain, an Israeli born in Bulgaria, and Vilma Sultan Berchowitz, a Guatemalan of Israeli origin. Farchi was the first Jew to hold a public office in Guatemala. He ran as a presidential candidate in the 2019 and 2023 general elections, placing fifth place in the latter election. He is currently the Government Commissioner for Investment and Tourism of Guatemala.
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Raúl Paz Alonzo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Raúl Paz Alonzo is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement. As of 2013 he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Yucatán.
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Manuel Sánchez González
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Manuel Sánchez is a Mexican economist with a wide-ranging professional career that includes positions in academics, banking, and central banking. He was nominated by President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa on April 23, 2009, as Deputy Governor and member of the Board of Governors at Banco de México, Mexico's central bank, for a term that ended on December 31, 2016. His appointment was ratified by the Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress on May 27, 2009.
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Jorge Luis Lavalle Maury
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- politician
- Biography
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Jorge Luis Lavalle Maury is a Mexican politician formerly affiliated with the National Action Party. From September 2012 to September 2018, Lavalle served as first minority senator representing the state of Campeche in the Mexican senate.
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Gastón Luken Garza
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- politician
- Biography
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Gastón Luken Garza is a Mexican entrepreneur and politician. He has been president of the State Electoral Institute of Baja California, comptroller general of the government of Mexico City, citizen advisor for the Federal Electoral Institute and congressmen for the National Action Party (PAN) in the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress. In 2016, he was the first independent candidate to run for mayor of Tijuana.
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María Elena Orantes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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María Elena Orantes López is a Mexican politician from the Citizens' Movement party. She serves as a deputy of the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the third electoral region and the state of Chiapas.
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Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
- Occupations
- architectpainter
- Biography
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Francisco González-Pulido is a Mexican architect. From 1992 to 1998, he worked predominately independently. In 1999, he joined the Chicago firm Murphy/Jahn Architects (which he later renamed JAHN in 2012). He has worked on a wide range of building typologies with a strong emphasis on the design of skyscrapers and airports in America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. After a long time working with Helmut Jahn, González-Pulido became the firm's first partner in 2009 and then president in 2012. In 2017, González-Pulido left JAHN to establish his own international architectural practice, FGP Atelier.
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Betsy Boze
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Dr. Betsy Vogel Boze, is an American academic and higher education administrator who is currently serving as the ninth President of The College of The Bahamas. Previously, she worked as a professor of marketing, department chair, dean, and CEO of Kent State University at Stark, before serving as the president of The College of The Bahamas. She is a senior fellow at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), that researches alternative revenue streams for public colleges and universities.
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Francisco Javier Mayorga Castañeda
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersoneconomist
- Biography
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Francisco Javier Mayorga Castañeda is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as Secretary of Agriculture in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón from 7 September 2009 to November 30, 2012. He had previously served in the same post from 28 September 2005 to 30 November 2006 in the administration of President Vicente Fox.
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Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rodolfo Elizondo Torres is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN.
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Lilia Aguilar
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- politician
- Biography
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Lilia Aguilar Gil is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PT. She currently serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Chihuahua.
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Flor Ayala Robles Linares
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- politician
- Biography
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Flor Ayala Robles Linares is a Mexican politician. Was Local Deputy for the state of Sonora’s 12th District headed by Hermosillo in the LIX Legislature of the Congress of Sonora. She is currently Federal Deputy by proportional representation in the Chamber of Deputies of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
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Silvia Hernández Sánchez
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Silvia Vanessa Hernández Sánchez is a Costa Rican economist and politician who has been President of the country's Legislative Assembly since 1 May 2021.
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Julio E. Rubio
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Julio Ernesto Rubio Barrios is a Mexican researcher and administrator at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.
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Juan Manuel Fócil Pérez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Juan Manuel Fócil Pérez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement. As of 2013 he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tabasco. Since September 2018 he serves as a Senator in the Senate of the Republic (Mexico), representing the state of Tabasco.
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Arturo Molina Gutiérrez
- Occupations
- engineeracademicuniversity teacherscientist
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Arturo Molina Gutiérrez is a Mexican scientist, researcher and academic.
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Sue Ellen Bernal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sue Ellen Bernal Bolnik is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. She currently serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Mexico state.
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Antonio Juan Marcos Villarreal
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Antonio Juan Marcos Villarreal is a Mexican politician and businessman, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and Coahuila's congressman.
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Adolfo Toledo Infanzón
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adolfo Toledo Infanzón is a Mexican politician, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the current Senator in the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the State of Oaxaca.
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Teofilo F. Gonzalez
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Teofilo Francisco Gonzalez Arce is a Mexican-American computer scientist who is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Irazema González Martínez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Irazema González Martínez Olivares is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. She currently serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
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Araceli Ardón
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Araceli Ardón is a Mexican writer from Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro.
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Claudia de Heredia Romo
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Claudia de Heredia Romo is a Mexican e-commerce entrepreneur.
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Lorea Canales
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Lorea Canales is a lawyer, journalist, translator and writer. Her books, Apenas Marta (2011) and Los Perros (2013), have been critically well-received and featured at the International Book Fair in Monterrey, Guadalajara and at the Instituto de Cervantes in New York. An English translation of Apenas Marta (Becoming Marta) was released in the U.S. in early 2016.
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Jorge Juraidini
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jorge Alberto Juraidini Rumilla is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.
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Héctor Moreira Rodríguez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Héctor Moreira Rodríguez is a former federal cabinet member under president Vicente Fox, a board member of PEMEX and an academic/administrator with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies in Mexico.
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María Elena Estavillo Flores
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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María Elena Estavillo Flores is a Mexican economist, academic and former Commissioner of the Federal Telecommunications Institute. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from ITESM as well as M.A. and PhD in economics from the University of Paris. In 2016 and 2017 consecutively, she was featured in Forbes magazine as one of the country's most powerful women. She was also listed as one of the most relevant women in the field in the world by "Global Competition Review".
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David Galindo Delgado
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Cuauhtémoc Galindo Delgado is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. He currently serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sonora.
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Claudia Caballero Chávez
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- 2001-2005 graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Claudia Gabriela Caballero Chávez is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2006 to 2009 she served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nuevo León.
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Mauricio De la Maza-Benignos
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- naturalistichthyologistecologist
- Biography
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Mauricio de la Maza-Benignos is a Mexican conservationist, naturalist, zoologist and multi award winning filmmaker. He is also a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers. In addition to his work in ichthyology, he is an agronomist and zootechnician, a jurist, an administrator, and an editor.
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Daniel Alonso Rodríguez
- Years
- 1998-.. (age 26)
- Occupations
- human rights activist
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Daniel Alonso Rodriguez is a human rights activist in Mexico, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. At that time, he was only nineteen years old, and a law student at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies, Hidalgo campus. His nomination was made by one of his professors, Juan Gabriel Zamora Jimenez, for his unusual sensitivity and dedication to human rights. In March 2017 Rodriguez received a letter from the Nobel committee that his nomination had been accepted, along with those of 317 other candidates. He is one of the youngest ever to be nominated.
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Javier de Lope Francés
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Javier de Lope Francés is a Mexican entrepreneur who founded several startups starting in high school. By the end of his college career he had founded 5 businesses, securing one million USD to expand one of them. His career since then has focused on creating new businesses, primarily in real estate and technology in Mexico.
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Paula Hernández Olmos
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- 1990-1994 graduated with civil engineering
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paula Angélica Hernández Olmos is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Hidalgo.
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Pamela Pulido
- Enrolled in Monterrey Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Sandra Pamela Pulido Ramírez is a Mexican writer and screenwriter. She studied Communication Sciences at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) Monterrey campus and later specialized in Cinema Screenplays at the Center for Cinematographic Training (CCC). She is the author of a children's book titled El Misterioso Aire Azul (2016).
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Lizbeth Gamboa Song
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Lizbeth Loy Gamboa Song is a Mexican politician and lawyer affiliated with the PRI. She served as a federal deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Quintana Roo from the third electoral region.
