Its most famous alumnus is
Vicente Fox Quesada,
President of Mexico 2000-2006. Other distinguished alums with high name recognition internationally are actress
Salma Hayek;
Academy Award-winning film maker
Alejandro González Iñárritu; and journalist
Jorge Ramos.
Athletics •
Gerardo Torrado – Notable Mexican footballer •
Yon de Luisa – President of the
Mexican Football Association •
El Hijo del Santo –
professional wrestler Business • Gustavo Cantu Duran - chairman and CEO Seguros Monterrey New York Life • Germán Ahumada Russek – president and CEO of Consorcio ARA •
Carlos Alazraki – president and CEO of the award-winning Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad agency •
Emilio Azcárraga Jean – president and owner of
Televisa • Genaro Borrego – vice-president of
FEMSA • Gerardo Castaneda - technology innovator
AWS • Fernando Chico Pardo – president of ASUR • Justino Compeán Palacios – president of
Femexfut • Jaime Costa Lavín – president of
SCA Latinoamérica • Javier de la Calle Pardo- CEO of
Nacional Monte de Piedad • Valentín Diez Morodo – member of the board of
Grupo Modelo • Carlos Manuel Flores Nuñez – CEO of Grupo Editorial Nomutsa • Carlos González Zabalegui – president of
Comercial Mexicana • Carlos Guzmán Bofill – CEO of
Hewlett-Packard Mexico •
Roberto Hernández Ramírez – president of
Banamex and member of the board of
Citibank •
Leon Kraig Eskenazi – partner and managing director of IGNIA Partners L.L.C. and former president of
Mars Inc. in Latin America •
Fernando Landeros Verdugo – CEO of
Fundación Teletón •
Marcos Martínez Gavica – CEO of
Grupo Santander •
Manuel Medina Mora Escalante – CEO of
Grupo Financiero Banamex and
Citi Latinamerica •
Bruno José Newman Flores – CEO of Grupo Zimat •
Luis Orvañanos Lascurain – president and CEO of Grupo GEO •
Luis Peña Kegel – president and CEO of
HSBC Mexico •
Roberto Ricossa – CMO of
Avaya •
Daniel Servitje – President and CEO of
Grupo Bimbo •
Alejandro Soberón Kuri – president and CEO of
CIE •
Olegario Vázquez Aldir – CEO of
Grupo Empresarial Ángeles and son of
Olegario Vázquez Raña Film •
Miguel Rico Tavera – film screenwriter, producer and director (
Padre Pro,
Espiritu de Triunfo and more than 2,500 TV commercials and documentaries) •
Guillermo Arriaga – film screenwriter, novelist and director (
Amores Perros,
21 Grams and
Babel) •
Daniel Birman Ripstein – film producer (
El Crimen del Padre Amaro,
El callejón de los milagros and other films) •
Alejandro González Iñárritu – filmmaker (
Amores Perros,
21 Grams,
Babel,
Birdman, and
The Revenant) •
Salma Hayek – Mexican actress •
Alejandro Lozano – film director (
Matando Cabos) •
Arturo Ripstein – film director and producer (
El callejón de los milagros and Directing Principio y Fin) •
Antonio Serrano – film director/screenwriter (
Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas) •
Nicole Vanden Broeck – film director
History, philosophy, literature, art and architecture •
Graciela Abascal – painter •
Angélica Argüelles Kubli – artist •
Lizet Benrey – Mexican painter •
Mauricio Beuchot – philosopher, poet and Dominican friar •
Tatiana Bilbao – Mexican architect •
Isaac Broid Zajman – Mexican architect •
Clara de Buen Richkarday – Mexican architect •
Fernanda Canales – Mexican architect •
Frida Escobedo – Mexican architect •
Pedro Friedeberg – Mexican painter •
Victor Legorreta – Mexican architect •
David Miklos – novelist •
Paulina Morán – Mexican designer •
Enrique Norten – Mexican architect •
Aurelio Nuño Morales – Mexican architect •
Silvia Pardo – painter •
Isabel Rico De Garcia – curator/art historian (
Instituto Cultural De Mexico) •
Michel Rojkind – Mexican architect and former musician of Russian descent •
Fernando Romero – architect •
J. Francisco Serrano Cacho – architect •
Esteban Suárez – Mexican architect •
Ignacio Padilla – writer
Politics and Public Sector •
José Guillermo Anaya Llamas – Senator •
Diego Fernández de Cevallos – 1994 presidential candidate and politician •
Emilio Gamboa Patrón – former Secretary of State and now Parliamentary Coordinator for the
Partido Revolucionario Institucional. •
Vicente Fox Quesada – former President of Mexico (2000–2006). •
Cecilia Landerreche (
es.) – Director of the
DIF •
Gustavo Madero Muñoz – Senator •
Juan Carlos Natale – Congressist •
Demetrio Sodi – politician •
Josefina Vázquez Mota – 2012 presidential candidate and Congressist •
Mabel Gómez Oliver – Member of the Foreign Service and Ambassador •
Alejandro Navarrete Torres – Former Head of the Radio Spectrum Unit,
Federal Telecommunications Institute Television and mass media •
Javier Aceves (Baxter) – Radio DJ •
Brooke Baldwin – CNN anchor •
Rosy Ocampo – television producer •
Jaime Smeke Balas – entrepreneur •
Jorge Ceballos Castelo – Pionero Social Media México •
Erick Hernández Villar – motion graphics developer •
Héctor Aguilar Camín – Mexican writer, journalist and historian. • Gabriela Hill – host of
Poker After Dark (Full Tilt Poker en la noche) in Spanish-speaking Latin America •
Jorge Ramos – journalist •
Juan Ruiz Healy – Anchorman, television producer, political columnist and documentalist •
Vero Rodríguez – Sports journalist and television host •
Marcela Turati – journalist •
Fátima Bosch –
Miss Universe 2025 Science and engineering • Rodrigo Cárdenas Domínguez — Engineer physicist, CEO and owner of Infinity Technologies • Mauricio Terrones Maldonado — Nanosciences and nanotechnology researcher • Asier Díaz-Caneja — Engineer physicist, CEO and co-owner of Team Hector ==See also==