Gustavo Baz Prada

Gustavo Baz Prada (31 January 1894 – 12 October 1987)[1] was a Mexican politician and medical doctor.

[2] Baz Prada was born in Tlalnepantla in 1894, and his family moved to Zacatecas and Jalisco while he was young but he completed his education in Toluca.

In 1914 Baz Prada served as a medical doctor treating the troops of Vicente Navarro.

In 1926 and 1927 he went to France, Belgium and Germany, studying at the University of Paris among other institutions.

Baz Prada was head of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1938 until 1940.