Rosario Green

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María del Rosario Green Macías (b. 1941 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist, diplomat and politician.

She is a former Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ernesto Zedillo (President of Mexico (1994–2000) and current general secretary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 2005. In the 2006 general election, she was elected to the Senate for the 2006-2012 period.

1 Education
2 Professional career
3 Publications
4 External links

[edit] Education

Rosario Green has a degree in International Affairs from the UNAM and a master's degree in economics from El Colegio de México and Columbia University where she did postgraduate research on Latin American studies. She was awarded two doctorates honoris causa in the United States. The first one in Humanistic Sciences at the University of New Rochelle (New York) and the second one in Law from Tufts University (Massachusetts).

[edit] Professional career

Rosario Green with Hubert Védrine

Green Macías has been a faculty member of UNAM, Colegio de México and the Universidad Iberoamericana and director of the Matías Romero Institute of Diplomatic Studies at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs as well as president of Fundación Colosio. She has been an Ambassador to the East Germany, executive secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, sub-secretary of Foreign Affairs, subsecretary for Political Affairs of the United Nations and senator for her party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

During the Zedillo administration, she served as the country's first female Secretary of Foreign Affairs (January 1998 to November 2000). In 2000 she signed a joint declaration for cooperation in the war against drug-trafficking with Igor Ivanov, the head of Russian Foreign Affairs. She represented Zedillo at the ceremony of change of government of Macao when sovereignty changed from Portugal to the Chinese government. She was also involved in the negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and the European Union.

During the Vicente Fox administration she became ambassador of Mexico to Argentina.

On September 30, 2005 she replaced Elba Esther Gordillo as general secretary of the PRI. In the general election of 2 July 2006, she was elected to the Senate as the number-one candidate on the PRI's PR list.

Rosario Green is also the Chair and Visiting Professor of the Kozmetsky Center for Excellence in Global Finance at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, United States.