Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born on 24 June 1962 and is a Mexican politician and scientist, who serves as Head of Government of Mexico City, equivalent to a state governor, since 2018.
20 Facts About Claudia Sheinbaum
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Previously, Sheinbaum served as Delegational Chief of the Tlalpan borough from 2015 to 2017.
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Claudia Sheinbaum contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born to a secular Jewish family in Mexico City.
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Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated all the Jewish holidays at her grandparents' homes.
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Claudia Sheinbaum studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she earned an undergraduate degree, followed by a master's and a PhD in energy engineering.
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Claudia Sheinbaum completed the work for her doctoral thesis in four years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, where she analyzed the use of energy in Mexico's transportation, published studies on the trends of Mexican building energy use, and obtained a PhD in energy engineering and physics.
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Claudia Sheinbaum was a researcher at the Institute of Engineering and is a member of both the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores and the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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In 2006 Claudia Sheinbaum returned to UNAM, after a period in government, publishing articles in scientific journals.
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Claudia Sheinbaum was the Secretary of the Environment of Mexico City from 5 December 2000, having been appointed on 20 November 2000 to the cabinet of the Head of Government of Mexico City Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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Claudia Sheinbaum oversaw the introduction of the Metrobus, a rapid transit bus with dedicated lanes, and the construction of the second story of the Anillo Periferico, Mexico City's ring road.
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Claudia Sheinbaum served as Secretary of the Environment in 2015.
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On 1 July 2018, Claudia Sheinbaum was elected to a six-year term as the head of the government of the Federal District of Mexico City, defeating six other candidates.
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In June 2019, Claudia Sheinbaum announced a new six-year environmental plan.
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In September 2019, Claudia Sheinbaum announced a 40 billion peso investment to modernize the Mexico City Metro over the next five years, including modernization, re-strengthening, new trains, improving stations, stairways, train control and automation, user information, and payment systems.
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Claudia 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.
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In 1986, Claudia Sheinbaum met politician Carlos Imaz Gispert, to whom she was married from 1987 to 2016.
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Days after the demolition of the chapel, the then chief of the delegation, Claudia Sheinbaum, met with the bishop of the VI Vicariate of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico, Monsignor Crispin Ojeda Marquez; Armando Martinez, president of the Universidad del Pedregal, and Manuel Santiago, general director of Works in the demarcation.
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The editor of the Mexico City daily newspaper El Financiero, Alejo Sanchez Cano, considered that the responsibility of Claudia Sheinbaum is unavoidable, stating that after having been in office for two and a half years she was negligent by not maintaining the metro system.
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Claudia Sheinbaum is the author of over 100 articles and two books on the topics of energy, the environment, and sustainable development.