A Mexican politician, physicist, and environmental engineer, she grew up in an intellectually, culturally, and scientifically active environment. She served as mayor of Tlalpan in 2015, and of Mexico City in 2018, then stepped down and ran for president for the ruling Morena party.
Birth and upbringing
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born on June 24, 1962, in southern Mexico to a Jewish family. Her grandparents immigrated from Lithuania and Bulgaria to escape Nazi discrimination and persecution.
She is the second daughter of biologist Ani Pardo Simo and chemical engineer Carlos Sheinbaum. She followed in her parents’ footsteps in the field of science, and reflected their commitment to political participation, as they were left-leaning, and her mother lost her job for participating in student-led demonstrations in 1968 against the one-party system that ruled Mexico.
She grew up among an intellectual, cultural and scientific elite, and learned the art of ballet and the French language.
She studied under former Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and she adopted his style and way of speaking, but he often cited his Christian beliefs, while Sheinbaum rarely discussed her Jewish heritage, and was known for not being religious.
Study and scientific training
Claudia Sheinbaum attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she graduated with a BA in Physics in 1989.
She obtained a master’s degree in energy engineering at the same university in 1994, and also conducted doctoral research in engineering in 1995, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, USA.United States of America.
It has conducted detailed analyzes and studies on energy and its uses in sectors of the economy, has also analyzed its use in Mexican transportation, and published studies on trends in energy use in Mexican buildings.
In 2006, she returned to the University of Mexico and continued her scientific research, and contributed to the Alleviation Department Climate change In the fourth and fifth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change obtained Nobel prize for peace after the publication of the Fourth Assessment in 2007.
Political experience
Sheinbaum’s political activism began while she was a student, helping to found the student-led Democratic Revolutionary Party in 1998.
In 2000, she was appointed Minister of the Environment of Mexico City, and oversaw the introduction of the city’s bus system and the construction of the second level of the Periferico Road.
She was a former member of the team United nations The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and was part of the team that jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
In 2015, she was elected mayor of the Tlalpan region, and stressed the importance of water and fair use, despite receiving criticism due to accidents that occurred in the infrastructure that she supervised during her term, and the occurrence of many deaths as a result of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the province in 2017.
In 2018, she was elected mayor of Mexico City, becoming the first woman elected to the position. She took on public transportation and environmental issues, and announced plans to reform the city’s subway system. However, her critics pointed out that fatal accidents on the subway continued despite her attempts at reforms.
First female president of Mexico
Sheinbaum announced on June 12, 2023 that she would step down as mayor of Mexico City to run for president of the Morena party. She indicated that many of the party’s senior officials would remain in their positions if she assumed the presidency of the country. “For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, I will become the first woman to assume the presidency of Mexico,” she told her supporters.
Analysts said she faces a delicate balancing act between her policy goals and preserving Lopez Obrador’s legacy, and she is careful not to criticize him because he is her mentor and the source of much of her electoral support.
Claudia won the presidential election on June 2, 2024 with more than 58% of the vote, becoming the first female president of Mexico.
Jobs and responsibilities
- Minister of the Environment of Mexico in 2000.
- Mayor of Tlalpan District in 2015.
- She was elected mayor of Mexico City in 2018.
- First female president of Mexico in 2024.
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