Claudia Sheinbaum

Claudia Sheinbaum
Sheinbaum in 2025
66th President of Mexico
Assumed office
1 October 2024
Preceded byAndrés Manuel López Obrador
8th Head of Government of Mexico City
In office
5 December 2018 – 16 June 2023
Preceded byMiguel Ángel Mancera
Succeeded byMartí Batres
7th Delegational Chief of Tlalpan
In office
1 October 2015 – 6 December 2017
Preceded byHéctor Hugo Hernández Rodríguez
Succeeded byFernando Hernández Palacios
Secretary of the Environment of the Federal District
In office
5 December 2000 – 15 May 2006
MayorAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byAlejandro Encinas Rodríguez
Succeeded byEduardo Vega López
Personal details
Born
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

(1962-06-24) 24 June 1962 (age 64)
Mexico City, Mexico
Political partyNational Regeneration Movement (since 2014)
Other political
affiliations		Party of the Democratic Revolution (1989–2014)
Spouse(s)
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    (m. 1987; div. 2016)​
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    (m. 2023)​
Children2
Parents
ResidenceNational Palace
EducationNational Autonomous University of Mexico (BS, MS, PhD)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Signature
Scientific career
FieldsEnergy conservation, energy policy, sustainable development
InstitutionsNational Autonomous University of Mexico

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, academic and scientist serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is Mexico's first female and Jewish president. Before becoming president, she was the head of government of Mexico City from 2018 until 2023. She is a member of the National Regeneration Movement. Sheinbaum successfully ran for president in the 2024 general election, winning in a landslide.

Early life

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born in Mexico City. Her father's Ashkenazi parents emigrated from Lithuania to Mexico City in the 1920s. 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.

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). The group would soon help create the Party of the Democratic Revolution.

She completed the work for her doctoral thesis in four years from 1991 to 1994 at the University of California, Berkeley.

Academic works

In 1995 she joined the faculty at National Autonomous University of Mexico Institute of Engineering. In 1999 she received the prize of best UNAM young researcher in engineering and technological innovation.

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. The group won the Nobel Peace Prize that year. In 2013, she co-authored the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report alongside 11 other experts in the field of industry.

Political career

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.

In 2014, she joined López Obrador's Morena Party, which broke away from the mainstream left-wing party, the Party of the Democratic Revolution.

Mayoralty of Mexico City (2018–2023)

In 2018, Sheinbaum was elected mayor of Mexico City. She is the first woman and Jew to be elected as mayor of Mexico City. 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. 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.

In 2023, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. She resigned as mayor in June 2023.

Sheinbaum has called herself as a feminist. She is a supporter of LGBT rights and created a gender-neutral policy for school uniforms when she was mayor of Mexico City. In 2022, she became the first Head of Government of Mexico City to attend the city's pride march.

2024 presidential campaign

Sheinbaum during a campaign stop in April 2024

Sheinbaum was seen as a possible candidate for President of Mexico in the 2024 election. In June 2023, she resigned as mayor to run for the nomination of the Morena Party for the presidential election.

On 6 September 2023, she was officially chosen for the party's nomination in the 2024 election, beating former foreign secretary Marcelo Ebrard. Sheinbaum has criticized the neoliberal economic policies of past presidents of Mexico, saying that they have caused the inequality in the country.

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. 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.

Presidency (2024–present)

Sheinbaum was inaugurated as the 66th President of Mexico on 1 October 2024. She became the first female and first Jewish person to become president.

On 2 October 2024, the anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre, Sheinbaum issued a decree saying that the country was responsible for the massacre and included a public apology.

In November 2024, Sheinbaum took her first trip abroad as president to attend the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, where she proposed moving 1% of global military spending to reforestation efforts. During the summit, Sheinbaum had meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and French President Emmanuel Macron.

On 6 November 2024, Sheinbaum congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Following Trump's threats of a 25% tariff on Mexican imports, she sent him a letter warning Trump about the economic harm it could bring. She also raised concerns over the flow of firearms from the United States to criminal groups in Mexico, after the U.S. Department of Justice found 74% of firearms used by cartels came from the United States.

On 1 February 2025, following Trump’s executive order adding tariffs, Sheinbaum threatened both tariff and non-tariff actions. Two days later, the two leaders reached an agreement to stop the tariffs for one month, with Sheinbaum promising to send 10,000 National Guard troops to the border and Trump promising to take action against weapons trafficking to Mexico.

Personal life

In 1986, Sheinbaum met politician Carlos Ímaz Gispert, to whom she was married from 1987 to 2016. They have one daughter, Mariana. She is also a stepmother to Ímaz Gispert's son from a previous marriage, Rodrigo.

In 2016, she began dating Jesús María Tarriba, a financial risk analyst. In November 2023, Sheinbaum announced their marriage on social media.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, Sheinbaum tested positive for COVID-19 in October 2020.

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