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Enrique Krauze Kleinbort, widely known just as Enrique Krauze, is a Mexican public intellectual, cultural entrepreneur, historian, essayist, critic, engineer, polemicist, and publisher. He manages and conducts the Documentary Production Company ClÃo TV and the renowned cultural magazine Letras Libres, and is member of Televisa's Board too.
Krauze received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the UNAM and a doctorate in history from El Colegio de México. In 1978 he received a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has been professor and researcher for the Centro de Estudios Históricos at El Colegio de México, visiting professor at St. Antony's College and at The Wilson Center.
From 1968 to 1970 he participated as a member of the student council as part of the Engineering school. For over twenty years he collaborated with Octavio Paz in Vuelta, where he was deputy editor and deputy director. In 1992 he created Editorial ClÃo, which he directs. In 1999 he created the cultural magazine Letras Libres, that is distributed in several Spanish-speaking countries. He is the brother of artist Perla Krauze and father of journalist León Krauze and novelist Daniel Krauze.
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