Axel Didriksson Takayanagui is a writer, a professor at

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(UNAM) and a member of the board of the ''UNESCO Chair on Regional Integration and University'' at the Autonomous University. He is also the coordinator between the Instituto Internacional para la Educación Superior en América Latina y el Caribe and the UNESCO Chair, as well as the director of the Center of Studies at the university (CESU).

Education and career

Didriksson is of Swedish and Japanese descent. He is an alumnus of the UNAM and has a

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in Economics which he received from the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

(UNAM) University of London:this date is incorrect (Graduate studies in education). He has written numerous books and articles for '' El Universal,

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'' and '' U-2000.'' Didriksson was the former Secretary of Education of the

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Awards

* Iberoamerican Award for the Promotion and Development of Technologicy, 1995. * Mérito Universitario medal. Universidad de San Buenaventura,

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. * Al Gran Comendador medal.

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, 2000.

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