| Fernando Solana | |
| Office: | President of the Senate |
| Term Start: | 1 November 1997 |
| Term End: | 30 November 1997 |
| Predecessor: | María de los Ángeles Moreno |
| Successor: | Heladio Ramírez |
| Office2: | Senator for the Federal District |
| Term Start2: | 1 November 1994 |
| Term End2: | 31 August 2000 |
| Successor2: | Jesús Galván Muñoz |
| Office3: | Secretary of Public Education |
| Term Start3: | 29 November 1993 |
| Term End3: | 11 May 1994 |
| President3: | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Predecessor3: | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Successor3: | José Ángel Pescador Osuna |
| Term Start4: | 9 December 1977 |
| Term End4: | 30 November 1982 |
| President4: | José López Portillo |
| Predecessor4: | Porfirio Muñoz Ledo |
| Successor4: | Jesús Reyes Heroles |
| Office5: | Secretary of Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start5: | 1 December 1988 |
| Term End5: | 29 November 1993 |
| President5: | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
| Predecessor5: | Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor |
| Successor5: | Manuel Camacho Solís |
| Office6: | Secretary of Commerce |
| Term Start6: | 1 December 1976 |
| Term End6: | 9 December 1977 |
| President6: | José López Portillo |
| Predecessor6: | José Campillo Sainz |
| Successor6: | Jorge de la Vega Domínguez |
| Birth Date: | 1931 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Death Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Party: | Institutional Revolutionary |
| Education: | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Fernando Solana Morales (February 8, 1931 – March 23, 2016) was a Mexican diplomat, politician and businessman. He served as the Mexican Secretary of Public Education, of Commerce and of Foreign Affairs.[1]
Born in Mexico City, Fernando Solana graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where has been a professor in economics, Philosophy, and Political Sciences. He has also served as Secretary General of the university.
He began his public service career after he was appointed as Secretary of Commerce by president José López Portillo in 1976. Less than one year later, he was appointed Secretary of Education, a position that he retained to the end of the López Portillo administration in 1982. That same year, the new president Miguel de la Madrid named him General Director of BANAMEX, the largest private bank in Mexico that had just been nationalized by the 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 organization, with some 500 independent members that include businessmen, diplomats, professors and people link with the international activities of Mexico. He is also member of the board of some of the largest Mexican corporations, 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 consultancy firm.