Fernando Solana

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Fernando Solana Morales (Mexico City, Federal District, February 8, 1931). Is a Mexican politician and Mexican diplomat, that has been of the secretary of Foreign Affairs, Public Education and Secretary of Commerce in the government of Mexico.

Fernando Solana is graduated in the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where has been a professor in the Economics, Philosophy and Political Sciences, besides Secretary general of the University.

He entered in the government after he was appointed as Secretary of Commerce by the president José López Portillo in 1976, less than one year later he was appointed Secretary of Public Education, charge that retained to the end of the government of López Portillo in 1982, that same year the new president Miguel de la Madrid named him General Director of BANAMEX the largest private bank of Mexico that has just to be nationalized by previous government, in this charge he remained in this charge until 1988 when Carlos Salinas de Gortari named him as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, in 1993 he passed to occupy for some months the the Public Education Secretary charge, after he named as to be a candidate for Senator in the Federal District advanced by the Institutional Revolutionary Party chosen result, his period was from 1994 to 2000. He finish his period passed to direct the Mexican Fund for the Education and the Development.

Fernando Solana is one of the few Mexican politicians that has managed to remain in top-level governmental positions during the four consecutive governments.

Preceded by Ernesto Zedillo	Secretary of Education 1993–1994	Succeeded by José Ángel Pescador
Preceded by Bernardo Sepúlveda	Secretary of Foreign Affairs 1988–1993	Succeeded by Manuel Camacho Solís
Preceded by Porfirio Muñoz Ledo	Secretary of Education 1977–1982	Succeeded by Jesús Reyes Heroles
Preceded by José Campillo Sáinz	Secretary of Commerce 1976–1977	Succeeded by Jorge de la Vega Domínguez