Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic, ran for President in the 2024 Mexican general election and is currently the President-elect.
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Sheinbaum, a member of the left-wing political party Morena, served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023.
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Sheinbaum served as Secretary of the Environment under López Obrador, Delegational Chief of Tlalpan borough, and Head of Government in 2018 for crime reduction and zoning law enforcement.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, born to a secular Jewish family in Mexico City, celebrated Jewish holidays at her grandparents' homes, escaping the Holocaust.
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Her parents are biologists Annie Pardo Cemo and Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz, and her brother Julio is a physicist.
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Sheinbaum, a physicist with a master's and PhD in energy engineering, studied Mexico's transportation sector and was awarded the best UNAM young researcher prize.
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At the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she was a member of the Consejo Estudiantil Universitario, which later became the founding youth movement of the Party of the Democratic Revolution.
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Sheinbaum, former mayor of Tlalpan, resigned after being nominated for Mexico City mayor by the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, including MORENA, PT, and PES.
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In 2017, Sheinbaum won a poll by 15.9% for the National Regeneration Movement's candidate for Mexico City's Head of Government, and resigned as mayor of Tlalpan to register her precandidacy.
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Sheinbaum became Mexico City's first female and Jewish head of government on December 5, 2018, marking a significant milestone in the city's history.
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