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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican scientist and politician who is the President-elect of Mexico (as of 2024's third quarter). She was the head of government of Mexico City from 2018 until 2023. She is the first woman and the first Jewish person to be elected Head of Mexico City.[1][2] She is a member of the National Regeneration Movement.[3][4]
Claudia Sheinbaum | |
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President-elect of Mexico | |
Assuming office 1 October 2024 | |
Succeeding | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
8th Head of Government of Mexico City | |
In office 5 December 2018 – 16 June 2023 | |
Preceded by | Miguel Ángel Mancera |
Succeeded by | Martí Batres |
7th Delegational Chief of Tlalpan | |
In office 1 October 2015 – 6 December 2017 | |
Preceded by | Héctor Hugo Hernández Rodríguez |
Succeeded by | Fernando Hernández Palacios |
Secretary of the Environment of the Federal District | |
In office 5 December 2000 – 15 May 2006 | |
Mayor | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
Preceded by | Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez |
Succeeded by | Eduardo Vega López |
Personal details | |
Born | Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo 24 June 1962 Mexico City, Mexico |
Political party | National Regeneration Movement (since 2014) |
Other political affiliations | Party of the Democratic Revolution (1989–2014) |
Spouse(s) |
Carlos Ímaz Gispert
(m. 1987; div. 2016)Jesús María Tarriba (m. 2023) |
Children | 2 |
Education | National Autonomous University of Mexico (BS, MS, PhD) University of California, Berkeley |
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Sheinbaum successfully ran for president in the 2024 general election, winning in a landslide. She is set to become the first female and first Jewish person to be elected president.[5][6]
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was in Mexico City.[7] Her father's Ashkenazi parents emigrated from Lithuania to Mexico City in the 1920s.[8][7] Both of her parents are scientists: her mother, Annie Pardo Cemo, is a biologist and professor emeritus of the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and her father, Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz, is a chemical engineer.[9][10][11]
During her time as a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she was a member of the Consejo Estudiantil Universitario (University Student Council).[12][13] The group would soon help create the Party of the Democratic Revolution.[12]
She completed the work for her doctoral thesis in four years from 1991 to 1994 at the University of California, Berkeley.[14]
In 1995 she joined the faculty at National Autonomous University of Mexico Institute of Engineering.[15] In 1999 she received the prize of best UNAM young researcher in engineering and technological innovation.[16]
In 2007, she joined the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the United Nations in the field of energy and industry. She was a co-author on the topic "Mitigation of climate change" for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.[17] The group won the Nobel Peace Prize that year.[18] In 2013, she co-authored the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report alongside 11 other experts in the field of industry.[19]
She was the Secretary of the Environment of Mexico City from 2000 to 2006 during Andrés Manuel López Obrador's term as mayor. She was the 7th Delegational Chief of Tlalpan from 2015 to 2017.[20][21]
In 2014, she joined López Obrador's Morena Party, which broke away from the mainstream left-wing party, the Party of the Democratic Revolution.[2][21]
In 2018, Sheinbaum was elected mayor of Mexico City.[22] She is the first woman and Jew to be elected as mayor of Mexico City.[23] During her time as mayor, she focused on policies to make the quality of water in the city better, environmental policies and to upgrade the city's transportation system.[24][25] Sheinbaum was nominated by the City Mayors Foundation for the World Mayor Prize in 2021 in North America for her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[26]
In 2023, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[27] She resigned as mayor in June 2023.[22]
Sheinbaum has called herself as a feminist.[28] She is a supporter of LGBT rights and created a gender-neutral policy for school uniforms when she was mayor of Mexico City.[29] In 2022, she became the first Head of Government of Mexico City to attend the city's pride march.[30]
Sheinbaum was seen as a possible candidate for President of Mexico in the 2024 election.[31][32] In June 2023, she resigned as mayor to run for the nomination of the Morena Party for the presidential election.[22]
On 6 September 2023, she was officially chosen for the party's nomination in the 2024 election, beating former foreign secretary Marcelo Ebrard.[33] Sheinbaum has criticized the neoliberal economic policies of past presidents of Mexico, saying that they have caused the inequality in the country.[34]
On 2 June 2024, Sheinbaum was elected president in a landslide. Sheinbaum received the highest number of votes ever recorded for a candidate in Mexican history, passing López Obrador's record of 30.1 million votes from 2018.[35] She also received the highest vote percentage since 1982 and carried 31 out of 32 states, with Aguascalientes being the only state that was won by her opponent Xóchitl Gálvez.[36]
She is set to become the first female and first Jewish person to be elected president.[5][6]
Sheinbaum will be inaugurated as the 66th President of Mexico on 1 October 2024.[37]
In 1986, Sheinbaum met politician Carlos Ímaz Gispert, to whom she was married from 1987 to 2016.[38] They have one daughter, Mariana.[39] She is also a step-mother to Ímaz Gispert's son from a previous marriage, Rodrigo.[40]
In 2016, she began dating Jesús María Tarriba, a financial risk analyst.[41] In November 2023, Sheinbaum announced their marriage on social media.[41]
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, Sheinbaum tested positive for COVID-19 in October 2020.[42]
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