Alonso Lujambio
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Alonso José Ricardo Lujambio Irazábal (born on 2 September 1962) is a Mexican
Mexico
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 academic and politician who serves as the current Secretary of Public Education in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón
Felipe Calderón
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 since 6 April 2009.

Lujambio served as member of the General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute
Federal Electoral Institute
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 (IFE), as advisor to the United Nations
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, and as an academic at the Ibero-American University, the National Autonomous University of Mexico
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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 (UNAM) and the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
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(ITAM); where he chaired the undergraduate program in Political Science.

On november 11, 2011, Lujambio was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, following a hospitalization for acute renal failure.
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