26 Notable alumni of Colegio de Mexico
Updated: May 21, 2026 EliteDegrees
Colegio de Mexico is ranked #1,893 in the world and #15 in Mexico by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from Colegio de Mexico sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Colegio de Mexico won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Clara Lida
1941-. (aged 85)
historian
university teacher
Clara Eugenia Lida is an Argentinian historian, well known for her work on social movements, anarchism and socialisms in the 19th century, and on Spanish emigration and Republican exile.
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2. Rosario A. Molinero
1956-. (aged 70)
diplomat
ambassador
Rosario Asela Molinero is a Mexican career diplomat. She currently works as ambassador of Mexico in Hungary, concurrently with Croatia and Bulgaria.
3. Javier Treviño
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Javier Treviño Cantú is the senior vice president for corporate affairs of Walmart of Mexico and Central America. He served as the CEO of Mexico's Business Council (CCE). Treviño Cantú was appointed Mexico's deputy secretary of education by President Enrique Peña Nieto on 20 November 2014. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2012.
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4. Silvio Zavala
1909-2014 (aged 105)
diplomat
historian
Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions.
5. Jesús Seade
1946-. (aged 80)
researcher
economist
university teacher
academic
politician
Jesús Seade Kuri is a Mexican economist, diplomat, and politician whose career has included roles in international trade negotiations and work on financial and debt crises at multilateral institutions. Since December 1, 2018, he has served as Undersecretary for North America in Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE).
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6. Margit Frenk
1925-2025 (aged 100)
university teacher
literary scholar
folklorist
translator
philologist
Margarita Ana María Frenk y Freund, sometimes known by her married name Margit Frenk Alatorre or as Margit Frenk Freund, was a German-Mexican philologist, folklorist and translator born in Hamburg, Germany. She was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language from 1993 until her death. She was also a Doctor Honoris Causa at the National Autonomous University of Mexico...
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7. Javier Garciadiego
1951-. (aged 75)
historian
writer
Francisco Javier Garciadiego Dantán is a Mexican historian specialized in the Mexican Revolution who formerly served as president of El Colegio de México. He is a former director-general of the National Institute of Historical Studies on the Mexican Revolutions (INEHRM), has authored several books and holds the 12th seat of the Mexican Academy of History, where he substituted the late...
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8. Leonardo Valdés Zurita
1953-. (aged 73)
economist
politician
sociologist
Leonardo Valdés Zurita is a Mexican scholar who currently served as president of the National Electoral Institute. He grew up in Mexico City. From February 2008 to October 2013, he was the last President of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).
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9. Lauro Zavala
1954-. (aged 72)
writer
philosopher
Lauro Zavala is a scholarly researcher, known for his work on literary theory, semiotics and film, especially in relation to irony, metafiction and micro-narratives. Faculty professor since 1984 at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, in Mexico City, where he is head of the area on Intertextual Semiotics.
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10. Claude Heller
1949-. (aged 77)
diplomat
politician
Claude Heller Rouassant was Mexico's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City from 2007 to 2011, during which time he served as President of the Security Council on two occasions. He has also served Mexico's ambassador to France, Cuba, Austria and Switzerland. He was also ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris,...
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11. Pablo Soler Frost
1965-. (aged 61)
short story writer
writer
prose writer
playwright
essayist
Pablo Soler Frost is a Mexican novelist, essayist, translator, playwright, short-story and screen writer. As a polyglot (he speaks fluently Spanish, German, English, French and Catalan), he has translated into Spanish several works and poems by Shakespeare, Walpole, Walter Scott, Shelley, John Henry Newman, Joseph Conrad, Robert Frost, Rainer M. Rilke, Theodor Daübler and Joanna Walsh.
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12. Bruno Figueroa Fischer
1965-. (aged 61)
diplomat
Bruno Figueroa Fischer is a Mexican diplomat. He is currently Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic since December 22, 2022. He was also Ambassador to the Republic of Korea between 2017 and 2022. In his previous positions, he was Director General of the Mesoamerica Integration and Development Project (known as the Mesoamerica Project) at the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation...
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13. Flora Botton Beja
1933-. (aged 93)
researcher
sinologist
gender studies scholar
university teacher
Flora Botton Beja is a Mexican sinologist and gender studies scholar. She was born in Greece, but acquired Spanish nationality through her parents and naturalized as Mexican after her arrival in Mexico in 1949. She was a co-founder of the gender studies and a pioneer of Oriental studies programs at El Colegio de México. She was one of the first...
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14. Denise Dresser
1963-. (aged 63)
university teacher
writer
journalist
Denise Eugenia Dresser Guerra is a Mexican political scientist, writer, journalist, and university professor. She is currently a faculty member of the Department of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), a columnist for Proceso magazine, an editorial writer for the newspaper Reforma, and a regular participant in the television program La Hora de Opinar. Dresser is...
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15. Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez
1985-1989 (aged 4)
politician
economist
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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16. Héctor Aguilar Camín
1946-. (aged 80)
historian
novelist
journalist
writer
Héctor Aguilar Camín is a Mexican writer, journalist, and historian, director of Nexos magazine.
17. Patricia Espinosa
1958-. (aged 68)
diplomat
politician
Patricia Espinosa Cantellano is a Mexican diplomat who served as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2016 to 2022. She was Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón; and served as Mexican Ambassador to Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Slovakia. Because of her diplomatic career, she was appointed Ambassador Emeritus...
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18. Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The governor of Tlaxcala from January 2017 to August 2021, he won the 2016 gubernatorial election after previously serving in several administrative positions as well as being a deputy in the state congress.
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19. Victoria Rodríguez Ceja
1977-. (aged 49)
civil servant
economist
Victoria Rodríguez Ceja is a Mexican economist and civil servant. She has been the governor of the Bank of Mexico since January 1, 2022, the first woman to hold the position.
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20. Arturo Sarukhán
1963-. (aged 63)
diplomat
Arturo Sarukhán Casamitjana is a former ambassador of Mexico to the United States. A consultant and public speaker, he is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, a distinguished visiting professor at the Annenberg School of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California,...
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21. Sergio Aguayo
1947-. (aged 79)
university teacher
writer
journalist
human rights defender
political scientist
Sergio Aguayo Quezada is a Mexican academic and human rights activist. He has been a professor and researcher for El Colegio de México since 1977, visiting professor at Harvard University since 2015 and a member of the Mexican Researchers National System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.)
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22. Adolfo Aguilar Zínser
1949-2005 (aged 56)
diplomat
lawyer
politician
Adolfo Aguilar Zínser was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq.
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23. Alberto Blanco
1951-. (aged 75)
graphic artist
opinion journalist
writer
translator
poet
Alberto Blanco is a Mexican poet. He has published twenty-six books of poetry and has also translated the work of other poets.
24. Marcelo Ebrard
1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón is a Mexican politician and internationalist who has served as the secretary of economy since 2024. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), he previously served as secretary of foreign affairs under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from 2018 to 2023. He served as Head of Government of the Federal District (Mexico City) from 2006...
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25. Juan José Arreola
1918-2001 (aged 83)
writer
university teacher
Juan José Arreola Zúñiga was a Mexican writer, academic, and actor. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the 20th century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he used elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and absurdist ideas in his work. Although he is little known outside Mexico, Arreola...
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26. Enrique Krauze
1947-. (aged 79)
historian
writer
businessperson
Enrique Krauze Kleinbort is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur. He has written more than twenty books, some of which are: Mexico: Biography of Power, Redeemers, and El pueblo soy yo (I am the people). He has also produced more than 500 television programs and documentaries about Mexico's history. His biographical, historical works, and his political and literary essays,...
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