Originally published at: Mexico swears in Claudia Sheinbaum, its first woman president - Boing Boing
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(selfishly) got curious about her science background and it’s very impressive indeed:
Both of her parents are scientists: her mother, Annie Pardo Cemo, is a biologist and professor emerita at the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and her father, Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz, was a chemical engineer. Sheinbaum has two siblings. Her older brother, Julio, is a physicist and physical oceanography researcher at CICESE. Her younger sister, Adriana, is a teacher who lives in the United States and is married to director Rodrigo García Barcha.
Academic careerSheinbaum studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she earned an undergraduate degree in 1989. She earned a master’s degree in 1994 and a Ph.D. in 1995 in energy engineering.
Sheinbaum completed the work for her Ph.D. thesis between 1991 and 1994 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. While working for the laboratory, she analyzed the use of energy in the Mexican transportation sector and published studies on the trends in Mexican building energy use.
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Fingers crossed that she’ll be able to leverage her science background to enact important policies related to the environment, health, education, etc. but being a good scientist and being good at politics are often very different skill sets (despite the deceptively-named field of “political science”) so time will tell.
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That background is going to be extremely useful for green transition discussions.
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Thank you for using “woman” rather than “female.”
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