Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)
The secretary of foreign affairs is the foreign secretary of Mexico, responsible for implementing the country's foreign policy. The secretary is appointed by the president of Mexico to head the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and is a member of the federal executive cabinet. The secretary is commonly referred to in Spanish as Canciller.
The incumbent secretary, since 1 October 2024, is Juan Ramón de la Fuente, former rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
List of secretaries
- Ignacio Mariscal 1880–1883, 1885–1910
- Enrique Creel 1910–1911
- Francisco León de la Barra 1911, 1913
- Victoriano Salado Álvarez 1911
- 1911
- 1911–1912
- Pedro Lascuráin 1912–1913
- Federico Gamboa 1913
- Francisco Escudero 1913
- Querido Moheno 1913–1914
- José López Portillo y Rojas 1914
- Francisco S. Carvajal 1914
- Ignacio Borrego 1915
- 1916, 1916–1917, 1918
- 1920
- Cutberto Hidalgo Téllez 1920–1921
- Alberto J. Pani Arteaga 1921-1924
- Aarón Sáenz Garza 1924–1927
- Genaro Estrada 1930–1932
- Manuel C. Téllez 1932
- José Manuel Puig Casauranc 1933–1934
- Emilio Portes Gil 1934–1935
- 1935–1940
- Ezequiel Padilla Peñaloza 1940–1945
- Francisco Castillo Nájera 1945–1946
- Jaime Torres Bodet 1946–1951
- Manuel Tello Baurraud 1951–1952
- Luis Padilla Nervo 1952–1958
- Manuel Tello Baurraud 1958–1964
- José Gorostiza 1964
- Antonio Carrillo Flores 1964–1970
- Emilio Óscar Rabasa 1970–1975
- Alfonso García Robles 1975–1976
- 1976–1979
- Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez de la Rosa 1979–1982
- Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor 1982–1988
- Fernando Solana 1988–1993
- Manuel Camacho Solís 1993–1994
- Manuel Tello Macías 1994
- José Ángel Gurría 1994–1998
- Rosario Green 1998–2000
- Jorge Castañeda Gutman 2000–2003
- Luis Ernesto Derbez 2003–2006
- Patricia Espinosa 2006–2012
- José Antonio Meade 2012–2015
- Claudia Ruiz Massieu 2015–2017
- Luis Videgaray Caso 2017–2018
- Marcelo Ebrard 2018–2023
- Alicia Bárcena 2023–2024
- Juan Ramón de la Fuente 2024–