Víctor Bravo Ahuja

Víctor Bravo Ahuja
Secretary of Public Education of Mexico
In office 1 December 1970 – 30 November 1976 [1]
President	Luis Echeverría
Preceded by	Agustín Yañez
Succeeded by	Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
Governor of Oaxaca
In office 1 December 1968 – 30 November 1970 [1]
Preceded by	Rodolfo Brena Torres
Succeeded by	Fernando Gómez Sandoval
Director General/Rector of the Monterrey Institute of Technology*
In office 1951–1958
Preceded by	Roberto Guajardo Suárez
Succeeded by	Fernando García Roel
Personal details
Born	20 February 1918 [1] Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico[1]
Died	2 September 1990 (aged 72) [2] Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico[1]
Political party	Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI)
Alma mater	National Polytechnic Institute[1] University of Michigan
Profession	Academic and politician
At the Monterrey Institute of Technology he served as Director General from 1951 to April 1955 and as its first Rector from 1955 to 1958.

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),[1] as Governor of Oaxaca (1968–70)[1] 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[1] and became one of the first four students to graduate with a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute.[2] 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.[2]

References

1. "Víctor Bravo Ahuja: Un tuxtepecano como ninguno" (in Spanish). El Tuxtepecano. 2008-09-03. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
2. "Bravo Ahuja, Víctor". Diccionario de Historia de la Educación en México (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
3. Basáñez, Miguel (1987). La composición del poder: Oaxaca 1968-1984 (in Spanish). Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública. p. 21. ISBN 978-968-6080-05-6. OCLC 19065244.