Víctor Bravo Ahuja
Mexican Secretary of Public Education, Governor of Oaxaca and Rector of the ITESM
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| Intro | Mexican Secretary of Public Education, Governor of Oaxaca and Rector of the ITESM | |
| Places | Mexico | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 20 February 1918, San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec | |
| Death | 30 August 1990Cuernavaca (aged 72 years) | |
| Politics: | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
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Víctor Bravo Ahuja (20 February 1918 - 30 August 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 and completed his master's degree at the University of Michigan.