Rosario Green | |
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Secretary of Foreign Affairs | |
In office January, 1998 – November 30, 2000 |
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President | Ernesto Zedillo |
Preceded by | José Ángel Gurría |
Succeeded by | Jorge Castañeda Gutman |
Personal details | |
Born | 1941 (age 75–76) Mexico City |
Political party | Partido Revolucionario Institucional |
Alma mater | UNAM |
Profession | Professor, Diplomat, Politician |
María del Rosario Green Macías (born 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), she was also the Secretary General of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 2005–2006, and current Senator for the 2006-2012 period.
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 College of New Rochelle (New York) and the second one in Law from Tufts University (Massachusetts).
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).