Rosario Piedra Ibarra

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Piedra and the second or maternal family name is Ibarra.

Rosario Piedra Ibarra
President of the National Human Rights Commission
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 November 2019
Nominated by	Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Appointed by	Senate of Mexico
Preceded by	Luis Raúl González Pérez
Personal details
Born	María del Rosario Piedra Ibarra (1951-07-14) 14 July 1951 (age 73) Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico[1]
Political party	Morena (since 2015)
Spouse	Germán Segovia Escobedo
Parents	Jesús Piedra Rosales (father) Rosario Ibarra (mother)
Alma mater	Autonomous University of Nuevo León
Occupation	Teacher political activist bureaucrat

María del Rosario Piedra Ibarra (born 14 July 1951[1]) is a Mexican psychologist, activist, and bureaucrat. Since 16 November 2019, she is the president of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission.[2]

Personal life

Rosario Ibarra Piedra's parents were Jesús Piedra Rosales and Rosario Ibarra, a well known long-time human rights activist, deputy, and senator. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León in 1985. Since 2004, she also holds a master's degree in psychopedagogy from the Educational Sciences School (Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación, in Spanish).[1]

Political career

In 2018, she was the congressional candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) for the tenth district [es] of Nuevo León, but failed to get elected. Piedra Ibarra also served as the Secretary of Human Rights within Morena's national executive committee.

On 16 November 2019, she was sworn in as the president of the National Human Rights Commission.[2]

See also

• National Human Rights Commission
• Human rights in Mexico

References

1. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Comisiones del Senado de la República (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 April 2022.
2. "Antecendentes | Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos - México". www.cndh.org.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 April 2022.