María del Rosario Green Macías (31 March 1941 – 25 November 2017) was a

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economist, diplomat and politician. She served as secretary of foreign affairs in the

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, 1994–2000). She was also the general secretary of the

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(PRI) from 2005 to 2006, and a

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for the 2006–2012 period.

Education

Rosario Green held a degree in International Affairs 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) and a master's degree in

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from ''

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'' and

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where she did

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research on

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studies. She was awarded two

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in the

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. The first one in Humanistic Sciences at the

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(

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) and the second one in

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from

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(

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Professional career

Green Macías was a faculty member of UNAM, Colegio de México and the

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and director of the Matías Romero Institute of Diplomatic Studies at the

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as well as president of Fundación Colosio. She was

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, executive secretary of the

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, under-secretary of foreign affairs, assistant secretary-general for political affairs and special adviser to the secretary-general on gender issues at the

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, and

for her party, the

(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

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, the head of

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n Foreign Affairs. She represented Zedillo at the ceremony of change of government of

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when sovereignty changed from

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to the

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. She was also involved in the negotiations for the

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between

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and the

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. During the

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administration, she served as Mexico's ambassador to

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. On 30 September 2005, Green succeeded

Elba Esther Gordillo Elba Esther Gordillo Morales (; 6 February 1945) is a Mexican politician and trade unionist who has been the leader of the 1.4-million-strong National Education Workers' Union (''Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación'', or SNTE), ...

as general secretary of the PRI. In the

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of 2 July 2006, she was elected to the

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as the number-one candidate on the PRI's PR list. Rosario Green was the first director (2005–2006) and visiting professor of the Kozmetsky Center for Excellence in Global Finance at

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in Austin, Texas, U.S.

Publications

* ''Estado y banca transnacional en México'' * ''Los mitos de Milton Friedman'' * ''La deuda externa de México'' * ''De la abundancia a la escasez de créditos'' * ''Lecciones de Deuda Externa de México: 1983–1997''

References

External links

Profile on the site of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

Mexican Embassy in Argentina
at the

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website.
The Kozmetsky Center for Excellence In Global FinanceSt. Edward's University in Austin, TX
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