Víctor Bravo Ahuja | |
Office: | Secretary of Public Education of Mexico |
Term Start: | 1 December 1970 |
Term End: | 30 November 1976 [1] |
President: | Luis Echeverría |
Predecessor: | Agustín Yañez |
Successor: | Porfirio Muñoz Ledo |
Office2: | Governor of Oaxaca |
Term Start2: | 1 December 1968 |
Term End2: | 30 November 1970 |
Predecessor2: | Rodolfo Brena Torres |
Successor2: | Fernando Gómez Sandoval |
Office3: | Director General/Rector of the Monterrey Institute of Technology* |
Term Start3: | 1951 |
Term End3: | 1958 |
Predecessor3: | Roberto Guajardo Suárez |
Successor3: | Fernando García Roel |
Birth Date: | 20 February 1918 |
Birth Place: | Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico |
Death Date: | 2 September 1990 (aged 72) [2] |
Death Place: | Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
Party: | Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) |
Alma Mater: | National Polytechnic Institute University of Michigan |
Profession: | Academic and politician |
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Víctor Bravo Ahuja (20 February 1918 – 2 September 1990) was a Mexican politician and academician who served as Secretary of Public Education in the administration of Luis Echeverría (1970–76), as Governor of Oaxaca (1968–70) and as Director General (1951–55) and then Rector (1955–58) of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM).
He was born into a family composed by Rodrigo Bravo Monsalve and Carmen Ahuja Beauregard and became one of the first four students to graduate with a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute. He interrupted his master's degree at the California Institute of Technology, served in the Mexican Air Force[3] and completed his master's degree at the University of Michigan.