Enrique Graue Wiechers

Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers (born January 9, 1951) is a Mexican ophthalmologist and academic who served as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 2015 to 2023.

Biography Graue Wiechers entered Preparatory School No. 4 in 1967 and was part of various committees and student groups in the student protests of the late 1960s, He graduated from the UNAM Faculty of Medicine in 1975 as a surgical doctor and then in 1978 with a specialty in ophthalmology. He later studied Biology and Surgery of Cornea Transplants at the University of Florida.

On November 6, 2015, Graue Wiechers was unanimously selected as the next rector of the UNAM. Graue succeeds José Narro Robles, another doctor, who occupied the post from 2007 to 2015. He is the tenth doctor to be rector of UNAM.

Publications Graue wrote the book Oftalmología en la Práctica de la Medicina General (Ophthalmology in the Practice of General Medicine) and has edited three books related to medical education.

Since 2002, Graue has been the president of the Patronato de la Fundación Conde de Valenciana IAP, a non-profit organization devoted to ophthalmology. He had previously been the chief of the foundation's cornea department from 1980 to 1990.