11 Notable alumni of
Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education
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Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education is 2593rd in the world, 122nd in Latin America, and 17th in Mexico by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education 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 Alfaro Ramírez
- Enrolled in Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education
- 1991-1995 graduated with licentiate in civil engineering
- Biography
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Enrique Alfaro Ramírez is a Mexican politician and the Governor of Jalisco. In 2009, he served as mayor of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga. He mounted his gubernatorial campaign in 2012 under the Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) party but lost to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Alfaro Ramírez decided to run for mayor of Guadalajara that year and won the elections. After serving for three years, he ran for governor again under the MC and was victorious. This victory marked the MC's first gubernatorial win in its history. Within a week of the election results, however, he resigned from the MC and decided to be an independent governor, claiming he was never an active member of the MC.
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Jorge Máynez
- Enrolled in Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education
- Graduated with licentiate in international relations
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jorge Máynez or Jorge Álvarez Máynez is a Mexican politician currently serving as the national coordinator of Citizens' Movement. He was elected as a state deputy to the Congress of Zacatecas in 2010 and as a federal deputy to the Congress of the Union in 2015 and 2021. In 2024, he was nominated as Citizens' Movement's presidential candidate for the 2024 general election.
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Aristóteles Sandoval
- Enrolled in Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education
- Graduated with master's degree in public administration
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz was a Mexican politician belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Jalisco from 2013 to 2018.
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Pedro Kumamoto
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- politician
- Biography
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José Pedro Kumamoto Aguilar is a Mexican political activist and politician. In 2015, he became the first independent candidate to win a seat in the Congress of Jalisco. In 2017, he ran as an independent candidate for Senate of the Republic representing Jalisco, but was not elected in the 2018 election.
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Gustavo Madero Muñoz
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Gustavo Enrique Madero Muñoz is a Mexican politician, policy entrepreneur, businessman, and great-nephew of the president Francisco I. Madero. He is currently serving as a senator since 2018, having previously been a senator between 2006 and 2010. He was recognized by Forbes as a top leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mexico for transforming AI policy. Madero also was the President of the National Action Party (PAN) from 2010 to 2013 and again from 2014 to 2015, and from 2015 to 2018, he was a federal deputy from the first electoral region representing the state of Chihuahua.
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Gustavo García-Siller
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- Catholic priestLatin Catholic bishop
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Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S. is a Mexican-American prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio in Texas since 2010. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois from 2003 to 2010.
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Luisa María Calderón
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luisa María de Guadalupe Calderón Hinojosa is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party who served in the Senate of Mexico from 2000 until September 2006. She is currently senator-elect as a PAN proportional representative. Her term in the senate began in late 2012 and will continue through 2018. "Cocoa" (her nickname) is known as a champion for women and minority rights throughout Mexico.
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Rossana Reguillo
- Occupations
- anthropologistsenior lecturerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Rossana Reguillo is a Mexican academic known for researching social norms, human emotions and the relationship between communication, culture, and politics in Latin America and how it is affected by drug trafficking. She currently holds a professor position at ITESO University and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Additionally, she has served as a visiting professor at New York University and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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María Dolores del Río
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- politician
- Biography
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María Dolores del Río Sánchez is a Mexican politician. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sonora. She also served as municipal president of Hermosillo from 2003 to 2006. She is now the State Coordinator of Movimiento Ciudadano in Sonora.
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Sergio A García de Alba Z
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- businesspersonpoliticianeconomist
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Sergio García de Alba Zepeda is a Mexican businessman who served as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox.
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Brenda Velez
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- ballet dancerdancer
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Brenda Vélez is a Mexican ballerina and architect. She is best known for performing in Swan Lake and in Giselle in Guadalajara's Teatro Degollado and owning VIA DANZA a dance academy in Guadalajara.
