She has also made history as the first Jewish person to be elected president of Mexico.
Share on email and former mayor of Mexico City, will have the chance to put her stamp on Mexico's climate and immigration policies once she takes office on Oct. 1.Jesús María Tarriba, a financial risk specialist at the Bank of Mexico, while they were both in university.in physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before moving on to earn a PhD in energy engineering.
During her doctoral studies in the 1990s she spent four years doing energy engineering research at the University of California, Berkeley, In 2006, she joined the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — becoming a member of the team that would win the Nobel Peace Prize the following year, CNN reported.Sheinbaum first entered politics in 2000, when outgoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — then the newly-elected mayor of Mexico City — appointed her to be his environment secretary, per CNN.
She also told the Times she's prepared to work with whichever candidate wins this year's consequential U.S. election. She has vowed to continue Mexico and the U.S.' efforts to address migration by tackling its root causes as well, per the Times.Share on linkedin
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