Fernando Solana

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Fernando Solana Morales (Mexico City, Federal District, February 8, 1931) is a Mexican diplomat, educaator, politician and businessman who has been Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of 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, he remained in this charge until 1988 when Carlos Salinas de Gortari named him as Secretary of Foreign Affairs. From 1994 to 2000 he was senator representing the Federal District and chair the senatorial commission on International Affairs.Today he chairs the board of the Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs a non governmental organización, with some 500 independient members that include bussinesmen, diplomats, professors and people link with the international activities of Mexico. He is also member of the board of some of the largest Mexican corportions, the Institute of the Americas in California, the Mexican American Foundation for Science, Euro America Foundation in Madrid, Canning House in London and president of Solana Consultores, a business consultan firm.

Preceded by Ernesto Zedillo	Secretary of Education 1993–1994	Succeeded by José Ángel Pescador
Preceded by Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor	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