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 ("Chancellor").
The incumbent secretary, since 1 April 2026, is Roberto Velasco Álvarez.Quién es Roberto Velasco, el especialista en la relación con EE.UU. que Sheinbaum propuso como canciller de México (in Spanish)
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 (interim) 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 (interim) 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 (interim) 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 2024–2026 Roberto Velasco Álvarez 2026-present
List of doctrines Estrada Doctrine Castañeda Doctrine
References
External links
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs website