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| Established: | 1940 |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Javier Garciadiego Dantán |
| Location: | Mexico City, D.F., Mexico |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | colmex.mx |
El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English: The College of Mexico) is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in the social sciences and the humanities. It is also considered one of Mexico's think tanks. It is divided into "centros" equivalent to U.S. academic departments and boasts one of Mexico's richest libraries. Its journals and publications are among the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world.
The campus is located in a purpose-built and architecturally striking building on the southern fringes of Mexico City, in Tlalpan borough.
It was founded by a group of republican Spanish exiles and its original name was "Casa de España en México" (House of Spain in Mexico). Historian Daniel Cosío Villegas played an important role in its institutionalization and the Colegio's library bears his name.
Notable 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.
- 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
- Alfonso Reyes
- Daniel Cosío Villegas
- Mario Ojeda Gómez
- Víctor Urquidi
- Rafael Segovia Canosa
- Lorenzo Meyer
- Gustavo Garza
- 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
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