Alonso José Ricardo Lujambio Irazábal
(2 September 1962 – 25 September 2012) was a Mexican academic and politician who served as
Secretary of Public Education in the cabinet of President
Felipe Calderón.
Lujambio served as member of the General Council of the
Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), as advisor to the
United Nations, and as an academic at the
Ibero-American University, the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
(UNAM) and the
Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico (ITAM), where he chaired the undergraduate program in Political Science.
On 11 November 2011, Lujambio was diagnosed with
multiple myeloma
Multiple myeloma (MM), also known as plasma cell myeloma and simply myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that normally produces antibodies. Often, no symptoms are noticed initially. As it progresses, bone pain, an ...
, following a hospitalization for acute
renal failure.
On 29 August 2012, Lujambio took protest as Senator, at which he was assisted in a wheelchair.
On 25 September 2012, Senator Alonso Lujambio died after complications from cancer.
References
External links
Official page of Alonso Lujambio
Mexican Secretaries of Education
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México alumni
Yale University alumni
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México faculty
Universidad Iberoamericana faculty
National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty
1962 births
2012 deaths
Deaths from multiple myeloma
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deaths from cancer in Mexico
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