Claudia Sheinbaum

In June 2019, she announced a new six-year environmental plan. It includes reducing air pollution by 30%, planting 15 million trees, banning single-use plastics and promoting recycling, building a new waste separation plant, providing water service to every home, constructing 100 kilometers of corridors for the exclusive use of Cablebús lines and the Mexico City Metrobús system, and constructing and installing solar water heaters and solar panels.

In September 2019, Sheinbaum announced a 40 billion peso (US $2 billion) 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.

On 1 July 2018, Sheinbaum was elected to a six-year term as Mayor of Mexico City, defeating six other candidates. During the campaign Sheinbaum was accused by the PAN of the 2017 collapse in a 7.1 level earthquake of an elementary school that killed 19 children. She became both Mexico City's first elected female mayor, and its first Jewish mayor.

From the end of 2015, Sheinbaum served as the Mayor of Tlalpan. She resigned from the position upon receiving the nomination for candidacy of the mayor of Mexico City for the Juntos Haremos Historia (Together We Will Make History) coalition, consisting of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), the Labor Party (PT), and the Social Encounter Party (PES).

López Obrador included Sheinbaum in his proposed cabinet for the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources as part of his campaign for the 2012 Mexican general election. In 2014 she broke away with Lopez Obrador's splinter movement from the mainstream Mexican left-wing party, the Party of the Democratic Revolution. She served as Secretary of the Environment in 2015.

In 2007, she joined the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the United Nations in the field of energy and industry, as an 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 authored the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report alongside 11 other experts in the field of industry.

In 2006 Sheinbaum returned to UNAM, after a period in government, publishing articles in scientific journals.

Sheinbaum has a Ph.D. in energy engineering, and is the author of over 100 articles and two books on the topics of energy, the environment, and sustainable development. She served as the Secretary of the Environment of Mexico City from 2000 to 2006 during Andrés Manuel López Obrador's term as mayor, and she was the Mayor of Tlalpan from 2015 to 2017. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

She 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 Andrés Manuel López Obrador. During her term, which concluded in May 2006, she was responsible for the construction of an electronic vehicle-registration center for Mexico City. She also oversaw the introduction of the Metrobus, a rapid transit bus with dedicated lanes, and the construction of the second story of the Anillo Periférico, Mexico City's ring road.

In 1995 she joined the faculty at UNAM's Institute of Engineering. She 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. In 1999 she received the prize of best UNAM young researcher in engineering and technological innovation.

Sheinbaum studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she earned an undergraduate degree ('89), followed by a master's ('94) and a Ph.D ('95) in energy engineering. She completed the work for her doctoral thesis in four years (1991-94) 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 Ph.D. in energy engineering and physics.

In 1986 she met politician Carlos Ímaz Gispert, to whom she was married from 1987 to 2016. She has one daughter from this marriage (Mariana, born in 1988, who in 2019 was studying for a doctorate in philosophy at the University of California), and also became stepmother to Rodrigo Ímaz Alarcón (born in 1982; now a filmmaker).Ángel Álvarez.

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Jewish-Mexican scientist, politician, and Mayor of Mexico City. She jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She was elected Mayor of Mexico City on 1 July 2018 as part of the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition. She is the first woman and the first member of the Jewish faith to be elected Mayor of Mexico City.

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born to a secular Jewish family in Mexico City. Her grandparents emigrated to Mexico City from Lithuania (her father's Ashkenazi parents, in the 1920s) and Sofia, Bulgaria (her mother's Sephardic parents, in the early 1940s to escape the Holocaust), and she celebrated all the Jewish holidays at their homes. Both of her parents are scientists; her father, chemical engineer Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz, and her mother, Annie Pardo Cemo, a biologist, now professor emeritus of the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her brother is a physicist.