As the transition period started since July 2nd, 2018, President Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador started announcing his multiple cabinet members. From ratifying most of the Secretaries he had indicated would be his main cabinet members since December 2017, to nominating new people for other multiple positions within the cabinet.
In this page a small bio can be found for every Secretary, Undersecretary and Head of important offices (i.e. Pemex or the social security institute IMSS). It includes academic and professional experience as well as information on policies they have defended in the past or are tasked to implement in the upcoming government.
In this page a small bio can be found for every Secretary, Undersecretary and Head of important offices (i.e. Pemex or the social security institute IMSS). It includes academic and professional experience as well as information on policies they have defended in the past or are tasked to implement in the upcoming government.
Secretary of Government
Olga Sánchez Cordero Olga Sánchez Cordero has been selected by AMLO as the next Secretary of Government (the equivalent of Secretary of the Interior). Mrs Cordero was Supreme Court Justice from 1995 to 2015 where she was considered one of the most liberal justices in Mexico history as she indicated to be in favor of same-sex marriage and legalizing abortion. She has also been a Constituent’s Deputy for the Mexico City constitution, the first women to be a Public Notary in Mexico City and also magister from the Mexico City Superior Tribunal (1993 – 1995). She studied law at the National Autonomous University (UNAM) and did postgraduate studies in Social Policy and Public Administration in the United Kingdom. |
Undersecretary of Government
Zoé Robledo Aburto The politician from the state of Chiapas will be Mexico’s next Undersecretary of Government. He was Senator representing the state of Chiapas where he was the president of the radio, television and film committee, secretary of the legislative affairs committee and member of the constitutional points committee in Congress. He has also been a local deputy for the state of Chiapas where he was the president of the state legistlature. He studied Political Science at the Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM). He was awarded the National Journalism Award in 2008. |
Undersecretary of Citizen Participation
Diana Álvarez Maury Mrs. Álvarez substitutes the original pick of AMLO campaign manager Tatiana Clouthier who opted to stay in Congress as a Federal Deputy instead of taking the position of Undersecretary of Citizen Participation. She is the Academic Director for the Thomas Alva Edison School (K-12). She has been a legal consultant and given law courses in various institutions like the University of The Americas where she was the head of the Law department. She was also a councilwoman from the extinct Federal Election Institute in the 1994 election and semiology consultant. She studied law at ITAM and has a master’s degree on business administration from the University of the Americas. |
Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration
Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez The former interim Mayor of Mexico City will be the last undersecretary within the Department of Government. Mr. Encinas was a Senator representing the State of Mexico (2012 – 2018) elected by the PRD. However during his term he resigned to that party joining AMLO’s Morena. He was a Federal Deputy (2009 – 2012) from the PRD where he coordinated that party’s legislative group, interim Mayor of Mexico City after López Obrador resigned to be presidential candidate in 2006, Secretary of Government of the Mexico City government and Secretary of Economic Development of the Mexico City government during AMLO’s term and Secretary of the Environment of the Mexico City government in Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas’ term. Before that he was Federal Deputy (1991 – 1994) for the PRD and two-time Governor candidate of the State of Mexico for the PRD. He studied economics at the UNAM. |
Secretary of Foreign Relations
Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón The former Hillary Clinton aide will be Mexico’s next Foreign Minister. His long political career includes Mayor of Mexico City from 2006 – 2012, Social Development Secretary and Public Security Secretary in Mexico City when AMLO was major, Federal Deputy for the Green Party (PVEM) from 1997 – 2000 and for the PRI in 1991, Undersecretary of Foreign Relations under President Carlos Salinas (from 1993 – 1994) among other positions within the PRI. He studied International Relations at the Colegio de México (Colmex) university. |
Undersecretary of Foreign Relations
Julián Ventura Valero Ambassador Julian Ventura has been a member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1990. He was the Mexican ambassador to the United Kingdom, but has occupied other positions such as being Undersecretary for North America Relations in 2009 and 2013, General Director of the Asia Pacific Office between 2003 and 2007 as well as being the Mexican ambassador to China or the Head of the Foreign Relations Ministry Office within the Mexican Embassy in the United States. He studied history at the University of British Columbia in Canada. |
Undersecretary of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights
Martha Delgado Peralta Mrs. Delgado has been a long time alley of Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. She was his Environment Secretary in the Mexico City government (2006 - 2012), but was also a deputy at the Mexico City state legislature from 2003 to 2006, member of the environment and natural resources committee. She has a long career regarding environmental issues, in particular the ones that relate to the use of water. She studied pedagogy at the Intercontinental University in Mexico and has a couple of certificate programs from universities like the UNAM, the University of Indiana and Harvard University. |
Undersecretary for North America Relations
Jesús Seade Kuri AMLO's representative in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement will be the new Undersecretary for North America Relations. Ambassador Seade, has participated in multiple free-trade agreement negotiations including Mexico's entrance to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs in the late 80s as well as being Deputy Director of the World Trade Organization between 1993 and 1998. He has also been a prestigious academic being an associate professor at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, emeritus professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and vicepresident of global affairs of China University Hong Kong - Shenzen. He studied chemical engineering at the UNAM and has a Master's degree in economics from Colmex and a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University. |
Undersecretary for Latin America Relations
Maximiliano Reyes Zúñiga Mr. Reyes has a long political career that includes being a deputy for the PRD at the Mexico City state legislature and a member of the Foreign Affairs committee, Head of the Bilateral Cooperation office of the Attorney General's Office, as well as having other positions within the Department of Government, Pemex and the extinct National Railways of Mexico. He has been a member of the Mexican International Affairs Council (COMEXI) and professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey and Anahuac universities. |
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
Carlos Urzúa Macías AMLO’s former Finance Minister during his mayorship of Mexico City (2000 – 2003) will be the next Finance Minister of the country. Mr. Urzúa’s professional career has been in academics rather than public service as he is a researcher-associate professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) university. He studied mathematics at the ITESM, a master’s degree in mathematics at the National Politechnical Institute (IPN) and a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
Undersecretary of Finance
Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez Mr. Herrera is the Practice Manager: Governance Global Practice, Public Service and Performance in Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Bank. He was worked before in the Department of Finance as well as being Secretary of Finance for the Mexico City government under AMLO’s administration. He studied economics at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UAM), has a master’s degree in economics from the Colmex and a PhD in economics from NYU. |
Undersecretary of Expenditures
Victoria Rodríguez Ceja Victoria Rodríguez became the Undersecretary of Expenditures once Undersecretary-to be, Gerardo Esquivel, was proposed as vicegovernor of the Mexican Central Bank when vicegovernor Roberto del Cueto announced his retirement early next year. Ms. Rodríguez had been working in the Finance Secretary transition team as she was the proposed Head of the Budget Control Office. Previously, she worked as Undersecretary of Expenditures for the Mexico City government under previous mayor, Miguel Angel Mancera and with Secretary Urzua back when he was the Finance Secretary for Mayor AMLO in the Mexico City government in the early 2000s. She studied economics at the Tecnologico de Monterrey University and has postgraduate studies in economics from the Colmex. |
Secretary of Welfare (Social Development)
María Luisa Albores Mrs. Albores has specialized during her professional career in social development on issues such as financing rural production in coffee, corn or honey while working at a farmer co-op in an indigenous zone of the state of Puebla. She studied agronomist engineering from the Autonomous University of Chapingo and has several certified degrees on related topics from the Iberoamericana University (UIA), the University of Mondragón and the Andalucian School of Social Economics in Spain. |
Undersecretary of Welfare
Ariadna Montiel Reyes The newly created position of Undersecretary of Welfare will be headed by Congresswoman Ariadna Montiel. She was elected in 2015 to be a Federal Deputy of Mexico City under the PRD but resigned to that party to join Morena’s ranks shortly after. She was the secretary of the Mexico City committee at the Chamber of Deputies and also a member of the social studies and public opinion research committee, the children’s rights committee, finance committee and education committee. Prior to that she was also a local deputy at the Mexico City legislature and General Director of the Public Transportation System of Mexico City under Marcelo Ebrard’s term (2006 – 2012). She studied architecture and design but did not finish her bachelor’s degree. |
Undersecretary of Productive Inclusion and Rural Development
Javier May Rodríguez Mr. May Rodríguez has been elected as Senator from the state of Tabasco (2018 – 2024) but will ask for a leave of absence to be the newly created Undersecretary of Productive Inclusion and Rural Development. Prior to this he was the Mayor of the Comalcalco municipality in the state of Tabasco two times (one under the PRD and the most recent one under Morena). He has also been the Morena party and the PRD party leader in the state of Tabasco as well as local deputy at that state’s legislature. He finished high school. |
Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources
Josefa González Blanco Ortiz Mena Mrs. González Blanco has a long professional career linked to various ecological and cultural organizations in the United Kingdom and in the southeastern states of Mexico (Chiapas mainly). For example she strengthened the conservation and reforestation project at the Aluxes National Park at Palenque, Chiapas and spearheaded a program that reintroduced red macaw species to their natural habitat in places in Mexico where they had gone extinct. She studied law at the Anahuac University and has a Master’s degree in Transformative Art from the John F. Kennedy University. |
Head of the National Waters Commission
Blanca Jiménez Cisneros Mrs. Jiménez Cisneros is a renowned specialist regarding water treatment. She currently is the Head of the Water Sciences Division and Secretary of the International Hydrological Program at UNESCO. Over the course of her 35 year career linked to water issues, she has been a board member of the Mexican Institute of Water Technology, vice-president and president elect of the Mexican Sciences Academy (2011 – 2012), president of the Mexican International Water Association, president of the School of Environmental Engineers, president of the Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences Mexican Federation as well as written multiple research documents regarding water treatment and conservation. She studied environmental engineering at the UAM and has a master’s degree and PhD in treatment and reuse of water from the Institut National des Sciencies Appliquées in Toulouse, France. |
Secretary of Energy
Rocío Nahle García Mrs. Nahle is Morena’s party leader at the Chamber of Deputies (2015 – 2018) where she was the President of the Energy Commission. She has had several positions within the Mexican State-owned Enterprise Pemex and other chemical industry firms such as Resistol. She studied Chemical Engineering at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas and has a certified degree in chemical processes from the UNAM and Economic Engineering from the Veracruz University. |
Undersecretary of Energy
Alberto Montoya Martín del Campo Mr. Montoya is an associate professor at the Iberoamericana University as well as president of the National Center for Strategic Studies (CEEN), a civil society organization that analyzes public policy. He is also the author of several books that have criticized the market-oriented policies that the last Mexican governments have implemented. He studied communications at the Superior Studies Technological Institute from the West (ITESO) university, has a master’s degree in communication and a PhD in public policy from Stanford University. |
Pemex (Petróleos Mexicanos) Chief Executive Officer
Octavio Romero Oropeza Mr. Romero has a long political career under AMLO’s wing being his Chief Clerk in the Mexico City government (2000 – 2005) and within the PRD when López Obrador was the party president (1996 – 1998). He has also been a Federal Deputy from the state of Tabasco (1994 – 1997), president of the PRD in Tabasco and a two-time candidate to the Mayor of the Centro municaplity in Tabasco, one representing the PRD, another representing Morena. He studied agronomist engineering at the Superior School of Tropical Agriculture. |
CFE (Comisión Federal de Electricidad) Chief Executive Officer
Manuel Bartlett Díaz The oldest of AMLO’s mayor collaborators, Mr. Bartlett has a very long political career mostly within the PRI and more recently within the Labor Party (PT). He was a Senator elected by the proportional representation formula for the 2012 – 2018 period, being the leader of the PT’s legislative group and being secretary of the energy commission. He has been a Senator for the PRI (2000 – 2006), participated in the PRI’s presidential primaries in two occasions (1988 and 2000 election), Governor of the state of Puebla (1993 – 1999), Secretary of Education under President Carlos Salinas (1988 – 1992), Secretary of Government and head of the Federal Electoral Commission (1982 – 1988), presidential campaign coordinator for future President Miguel de la Madrid among multiple other positions within the Social Development, Foreign Relations and Government Departments and the PRI’s internal party structure. He studied law at the UNAM and has a master’s degree and a PhD in political science from the UNAM. |
Secretary of the Economy
Graciela Márquez Colín Mrs. Márquez is an associate professor – researcher at the Colegio de México university but she has also given courses at multiple universities like the UNAM, ITESM and the University of Chicago among others. She studied Economics at the UNAM and has a master’s degree in Economics from the Colmex and a PhD in Economic History from Harvard University. |
Undersecretary of International Trade
Luz María de la Mora Sánchez She is an affiliate professor of CIDE university and an independent consultant (LMM Consultants) that specializes on trade as she participated in the original Mexican NAFTA negotiating team. During her professional career she has been the Head of Economic Relations Unit within the Secretary of Foreign Relations and Head of the International Commercial Negotiations Unit within the Department of the Economy as well as being the Department of the Economy representative in Brussels, Belgium and Economic Counsel at the Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C. and part of the negotiating team of multiple free trade agreements for Mexico. She studied International Relations in the Colmex, has a master’s degree in Political Economy from Carleton University in Canada, a licensed degree on international trade from the ITAM and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. |
Undersecretary of Industry and Commerce
Ernesto Acevedo Fernández Mr. Acevedo is a professor in Economics at the UNAM but has also taught several courses in Economics at the Colmex and the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He has also worked at the Finance Secretary as the Head of Economic International Studies unit, Head of Political Economy and Macroeconomics Analysis Director. He has also been an economic advisor at the telecommunications regulatory agency (COFETEL) and the Secretary of the Economy. He studied Economics at the UNAM, has a master’s degree in Economics from Colmex and a PhD in Economics from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra from Barcelona, Spain. |
Secretary of Agriculture, Farming, Rural Development, Fishing and Food
Víctor Villalobos Arámbula Mr. Villalobos is the General Director at the Agriculture Cooperation Interamerican Institute. He has also been Undersecretary of Natural Resources in the Environment and Natural Resources Secretary and Undersecretary of Agriculture for the Federal Government. He studied Agronomist Engineering at the National Agriculture School of Chapingo and has a Master’s degree in plant genetics from the Postgraduate School of Chapingo and a PhD in the matter from the University of Alberta, Canada. |
Undersecretary of Agriculture
Miguel García Winder Mr. García Winder is the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture Representative to the USA and Head of the Center for Strategic Analysis for Agriculture at IICA. Prior to that he was Director of Agribusiness within the IICA and has also been an associate professor at the Postgraduate School of the Water Technologies Mexican Institute. He studied agronomist engineering and has a master’s degree in animal science from the University of Nebraska and holds a PhD in reproductive biology from West Virginia University. |
Undersecretary of Food Security
Víctor Suárez Carrera He is the General Director of the Wholesale Farmer Companies National Association as well as a member of the board of the Farmer Organizations National Council and part of the campaign ‘Without corn there is no country’. He has been a Federal Deputy from the PRD (2003 – 2006). He studied agronomist engineering specialized in agriculture economics at the Chapingo Autonomous University. |
Secretary of Communications and Transportations
Javier Jiménez Espriú Mr. Jiménez Espriú has a long professional career that links him to the UNAM. He has been a member of its Board of Trustees, president of its soccer club (Pumas UNAM), Secretary General of the UNAM (1973 – 1982). Additionally, he has been Chief Executive Officer at the extinct airline Mexicana de Aviación, commercial deputy director at Pemex and Undersecretary of Communications and Technological Development under President Miguel de la Madrid (1982 – 1988). He studied mechanical engineering at UNAM. |
Undersecretary of Infrastructure
Cedric Escalante Sauri Mr. Escalante has had multiple positions within the Communications and Transportations Department mainly related to road infrastructure (highways, bridges and rural roads) in several states of the country like Aguascalientes, Guerrero, Tabasco, Veracruz and Zacatecas. He studied civil engineering at the Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco, has postgraduate studies in roadways from the UNAM, a master’s degree in transportation engineering from the University of California Berkeley. |
Undersecretary of Transportations
Carlos Morán Moguel Mr. Moran was the Head of the Technological and Industrial Education office in the Department of Education. In 2016 he was suspended 90 days by the Department of Education’s internal affairs office arguing administrative negligence. He has also worked as Head of the Machinery and Transportation office at the extinct Department of Public Works, Head of the Civil Aviation office at the Department of Communications and Transportation, Technical and Operations Director of Aeromexico, Commercial Director of the extinct airline Mexicana and Chief Executive Officer of the reactor firm Turborreactores. He studied electric engineering at the UNAM and has a master’s degree in science from Stanford University. |
Undersecretary of Information Technologies
Salma Jalife Villalón She was a member of the board of then telecommunications regulatory agency Federal Commission on Telecommunications, part of the preliminary electoral results program at the Federal Electoral Institute, has been a consultant on telecommunications and information technology among other positions on the Department of Communications and Transportations. She studied computer engineering at the UNAM and has a master’s degree in telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder. |
Secretary of Education
Esteban Moctezuma Barragán The next Secretary of Education was the Head of Fundación Azteca (TV Azteca’s charity foundation). He had a long political career within the PRI as he was Secretary of Government and Secretary of Social Development with President Ernesto Zedillo, PRI Senator, presidential campaign coordinator for President Zedillo as well as assistant to the Secretary of Energy, Mines and Industry in President de la Madrid and President López Portillo government and analyst in the President’s Secretary with President Luis Echeverría. He studied law at the UNAM and a master’s degree in Political Economy at the University of Cambridge. |
Undersecretary of Higher Education
Luciano Concheiro Borqués Mr. Concheiro is a distinguished professor on rural development of the UAM over the last 34 years. He is the Head of the Agrarian Economics, Rural Development and Farmer Groups Research Area. He has also been a researcher at the National History and Anthropology Institute. |
Secretary of Culture
Alejandra Frausto Guerrero The next Secretary of Culture was the Executive Director at the Mexican Culture Seminary before resigning to join AMLO’s presidential campaign. She has a career in cultural institutions such as being the Cultural Diffusion Director from the Claustro of Sor Juana University, Festival Coordinator for the Culture Secretary of the Mexico City government, Director of the Guerrero government Culture Institute and General Director of the Popular Culture Offices from the Federal government Culture Secretary. She studied law at the UNAM. |
Undersecretary of Culture Diversity
Laura Esquivel Valdés Mrs. Esquivel is a prolific writer famous for the novel Like Water for Chocolate (in Spanish Como Agua Para Chocolate) that was a Federal Deputy for the Morena party from 2015 – 2018 being a member of the science and technology, culture and film and environment and natural resources committees. She has written different children programs for Mexican tv during the 1970s and 1980s, several movie screenplays and various other novels since. At the end of the 2000s she became the Head of Cultural Affairs for the Coyoacan borough government within Mexico City (governed then by the PRD). She studied a bachelor’s degree in preschool education but also completed several studies in theater specializing in child theater. |
Secretary of Health
Jorge Alcocer Varela Dr. Alcocer Varela is a Medical Sciences Emeritus Researcher at the Salvador Zubirán Nutrition and Medical Sciences National Institute and Head of the Intellectual Property unit in the same institute. He has been named emeritus professor at various institutions such as the National Health Institute and the High Specialty Hospitals from the Secretary of Health. He studied medicine at the UNAM specializing in internal medicine, rheumatology and immunology at the Nutrition National Institute as well as having a PhD in medical sciences from the same institution. He also did postgraduate studies in immunology at London University, United Kingdom. He was awarded the Sciences National Award in the area of mathematics, physical and natural sciences in 2015. |
Director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS)
Germán Martínez Cazares The former president of the PAN party will be Mexico’s next Director of its Social Security Institute. Before joining AMLO’s campaign, he has had several public positions as a PAN member. He was PAN president from 2007 to 2009, Secretary of Public Service from 2006 to 2007 under President Felipe Calderon and two-time Federal Deputy (1997 – 2000; 2003 – 2006). Most recently he was the Head of the Law Department at La Salle University. He studied law at La Salle University. |
Secretary of Labor
Luisa María Alcalde Luján Ms. Alcalde teaches a law degree course in the Ponciano Arriaga School of Law. She was a Federal deputy representing Morena from 2012 – 2015 where she was the secretary of the Labor Commission. She also has been national coordinator of the young people group within the Morena party. She studied law at the UNAM and has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley. |
Undersecretary of Labor
Alfredo Domínguez Marrufo Mr. Dominguez is the head lawyer for the AMLO created Autonomous University of Mexico City. He comes from a family tied to labor unions as his father has been the head and founder of a labor union in the state of Chihuahua for the last 50 years. His professional experience in the public sector has been in positions related to furthering policies aimed at workers. He was in charge of the Mexico City government food pensions, the executive director of the ‘Universal Access High School’ from the Mexico City government, and chief of staff of the Gustavo A. Madero borough mayor within Mexico City. He studied law at the State of Mexico Autonomous University. |
Undersecretary of Employment
Horacio Duarte Olivares The next Undersecretary of Employment was Morena party’s representative at the National Electoral Institute in the previous elections. Prior to that, he was distinguished member of the PRD party linked to AMLO in several occasions. For example, he was the party’s legal representative with the Electoral Tribunal in 2006 and the lawyer who defended AMLO in his impeachment from the Mexico City government in 2004. He was the PRD’s representative at the Federal Electoral Institute for several states (State of Mexico, Nayarit and Oaxaca) in several periods between 1999 and 2011. Additionally, he has been Mayor of the city of Texcoco (2000 – 2003) –although he worked for its local government since 1991. Furthermore, he was a local deputy at the State of Mexico legislature from 1997 to 2000 and candidate to be president of the PRD during the 2000s. Mr. Duarte was a founding member of the Mexican Socialist Party in 1987 which then became one of the parties that founded the PRD in 1989 (he was also a founding member). He studied law at the UNAM specializing in Constitutional reforms. |
Secretary of Agrarian, Territory and Rural Development
Román Guillermo Meyer Falcón Mr. Meyer teaches courses on social urbanism at the Iberoamericana University focusing on policies that holistically integrate urban development to rescuing public spaces, integrating marginalized communities, improving mobility and public health. He studied architecture at the ITESM and has a Master’s degree in Urban Management from the Politechnical University of Catalonia, Spain. |
Secretary of Tourism
Miguel Torruco Marqués The future Tourism Secretary was the Tourism Secretary of the Mexico City government (2012 – 2017). He has also been Tourism Vicepresident of the National Confederation of Tourism Trade and Services National Chamber, President of the Mexican Hotel and Motel Association and President of the National Tourism Confederation. He studied hotel and restaurant management at the Mexican Tourism School and he founded the Panamerican Hotel Management School. |
Undersecretary of Tourism Development and Regulation
Humberto Hernández Haddad The former Mexican Consul General to the United States in San Antonio, Texas will be the country’s next Undersecretary of Tourism Development and Regulation. Mr. Hernández Haddad has been a Federal Deputy from the state of Tabasco in 2 occassions (1973 – 1976; 1979 – 1982) as well as being Senator representing that same state between 1982 – 1988 where the president of the foreign relations committee (all under the PRI). He studied law at the UNAM and has a master’s degree in international public policy from John Hopkins University. |
Undersecretary of Tourism Policy
Simón Levy Dabbah He was the Head of Development and Investment Promotion Agency of the Mexico City government (2012 – 2018). He has given various courses related to trade and Mexico – China relationships at the UNAM. Prior to that he worked on the Mexico City office of the United States of America International Development Fund. He is a certified lawyer in China and has participated in various private sector endeavors related to trade with China and other Asian countries. He was disqualified to work as a public official in Mexico City's government by that government's General Comptroller office (it does not apply for Federal level positions). He studied law at the UNAM specializing in trade, has a certified diploma on Chinese law from Indiana University and the Chinese Popular University, a master’s degree on business administration from ITAM and holds a PhD on law studies regarding private-public partnerships from the UNAM. He was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. |
Secretary of Public Service
Irma Eréndira Sandoval Ballesteros Mrs. Sandoval is a researcher at the Social Research Institute and coordinator of the Transparency and Corruption Analysis and Documentation Laboratory where she has conducted several research documents on anti-corruption efforts. She was a Constituent’s Deputy for the Mexico City constitution in 2016 where she was the vicecoordinator for the Morena party group. She studied economics at the UNAM and sociology at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM). |
Secretary of Public Security
Alfonso Durazo Montaño The recreated Public Security Department will have in Mr. Durazo an experienced civil servant. He currently is the president of the Morena party in the U.S. border state of Sonora. He has been a Federal Deputy between 2012 – 2015 where he was the leader of the Morena party group in that chamber of Congress as well as member of the Political Coordination Board (Congress’ most important committee), president of the Public Safety Committee, secretary of the Government Committee and member of the Security and Social Development Committees. He also ran for the Senate under AMLO’s coalition in 2006 for the state of Sonora. Before that he was President Vicente Fox’s Private Secretary and had multiple positions within various departments such as the Government, Education and Social Development under PRI administrations (1973 – 1995). He studied law at the UAM, has studies on civil engineering from the UNAM, a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Sonora Institute of Public Administration and holds a PhD in Public Policy from the ITESM. |
Office of the President Chief of Staff
Alfonso Romo Garza AMLO’s Chief of Staff is a wealthy businessman from Monterrey that has been one of AMLO’s main supporters and benefactors throughout the years. He was Lopez Obrador’s main liaison with the business sector in Mexico on the last 2 presidential campaigns the President Elect competed in. Romo is a board member in firms such as Grupo Plenus (biotechnology, education and financial services), Vector (financial services), founding investor of Synthetic Genomics and owns at least part of Nature Source Improved Plants, Agromod, Enerall and the private Metropolitan University of Monterrey. He studied agronomist engineering at the ITESM. |