Sofialeticia Morales Garza

Secretaria de Educación de Nuevo Léon

Sofialeticia Morales Garza is Secretary of Education of Nuevo León and Director of the Educational Integration Unit of Nuevo León.

She holds a degree in Spanish Literature from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her graduate studies include a Master of Science in Education from the University of Kansas, as well as a Master and PhD of Education from Harvard University.

In the public sector, she worked as Director of Academic Planning for the National Center for the Arts (1992-1994) and as General Director of International Relations for the Ministry of Public Education (1999-2000).

She worked at the Organization of American States (2001-2004), organizing the Inter-American Committees on Education, Culture, Social Development and Labor. Subsequently, at the World Health Organization, she served as Senior Advisor for the Millennium Development Goals and was Technical Coordinator of the Development Agenda (2005-2013) in the area of education, health and development.

From 2013 to 2018 she was General Director of Innovation and Strengthening of the Ministry of Public Education in Mexico City.

Within the private sector, she began her professional career as a professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey (1973-1981). In 2019, and until her appointment as Secretary of Education of Nuevo León, she worked as Star Professor and Director of Developmental Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

She has several research projects and publications, among which the following stand out:

  • La educación de adultos y con adultos, una nueva relación entre estado y sociedad (Education of adults and with adults, a new relationship between state and society). Publication of the Instituto de Investigaciones Legislativas SEP-CONACYT, Mexico, 1994.
  • Manual de Prevención de SIDA y apoyo a los habitantes de la comunidad (Manual on AIDS Prevention and Support for Community Dwellers), PAHO, Washington D.C., 2011.
  • Los retos de la equidad de género en los 9 países más poblados del mundo en vías de desarrollo(The challenges of gender equity in the 9 most populous developing countries in the world), UNESCO-SEP, Senegal, 2002.