Rafael Tovar y de Teresa

Rafael Tovar y de Teresa (April 6, 1954 – December 10, 2016) was a Mexican diplomat, lawyer, scholar and historian. He was ambassador of Mexico to Italy between 2001 and 2007 and the second president of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), a position he held on three separate occasions until the Council became the Secretariat of Culture in the cabinet of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2015). He was also president of the 'Organizing Committee for the Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the start of the National Independence movement and the Centenary of the start of the Mexican Revolution' between September 2007 and October 2008.

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