Marcelo Ebrard

A descendant of the French emigrant wave from Barcelonette in 1915, Ebrard is the son of architect Marcelo Ebrard Maure and Marcela Casaubón.

He received a bachelor's degree in international relations from El Colegio de México.

He specialized in public administration and planning at France's École nationale d'administration.

He was married to Francesca Ramos Morgan and had two daughters and one son: Francesca, Anne Dominique, and Marcelo Ebrard Ramos.

He later divorced and married Mexican soap-opera actress Mariagna Pratts.

Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón (born 10 October 1959) is a Mexican politician who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs until 2023.

After volunteering in the presidential campaigns of 1976 and 1982, serving as an advisor to the general secretary in 1988, and being elected to the Chamber of Deputies.

Ebrard became a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1978.

he left the PRI with Manuel Camacho Solís in 1995 to found the now-defunct Party of the Democratic Center (PCD).

A centrist party that sought to expose nationalism and democracy as its principles.

The party participated in the 2000 elections with Camacho as a candidate for the presidency and Ebrard as a candidate for the government of the Federal District.

Ebrard, who achieved some acceptance as a candidate, declined in March 2000 in favor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the PRD and the so-called Alliance for Mexico City (PRD/PT/Convergencia/PSN/PAS) to Mexico City.

In 2000 he briefly campaigned for the 2000 Head of Government election for the PCD before stepping down in March 2000 and throwing his support behind Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the candidate of the multi-party Alliance for Mexico City.

Following the election, he joined López Obrador's cabinet as secretary of public security in 2002 after the resignation of Leonel Godoy as head of this agency.

During this period, crime and delinquency fell by 9.2%, reaching the lowest daily average in a decade.

He launched the creation of new police groups, such as the Citizen Protection Program and the Cardholder Crime Protection Unit.

He became a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution on 12 September 2004.

Ebrard, the city's chief of police, and Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on 23 November 2004.

After a thorough investigation, López Obrador gave Ebrard a vote of confidence, despite a request from President Fox that López Obrador relieve him of his duties.

Later, with constitutional power, Fox fired Ebrard which he described the dismissal as politically motivated from Vicente Fox.

Other critics also viewed the firing as a politically motivated move to derail Ebrard's political future.

Huerta was also implicated in the incident, yet Fox gave Huerta his full support, and did not remove him from office.

For this incident, Ebrard was put under investigation, as were the federal authorities who also failed to act.

He was later reinstated as Secretary of Social Development by López Obrador.

He was the successful candidate of the Democratic Revolution Party-led electoral alliance to serve as Head of Government of the Federal District in the 2006 Federal District election, a position he held until 2012.

He also served as secretary-general of the former Federal District Department, minister of public security, and minister of social development of the Mexican capital.

On 8 July 2006, the French newspaper Le Monde ran an article indicating that Ebrard was an emerging leader of the Mexican Left.

Manuel Camacho Solís, of whom Ebrard was a political protégé, has a reputation for running articles in foreign newspapers to indicate his political intentions.

Ebrard ran as the PRD's candidate for Head of Government in the Federal District election held on 2 July 2006, winning 47% of the votes.

He continued and expanded programs that López Obrador had initiated.

A new initiative was the Prepa Sí program, granting low-income students scholarships.

From 2009 to 2012, he was the chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change.

In 2010, Ebrard was nominated as the "world's best mayor" by the Project World Mayor.

On 7 December 2010, he was awarded the World Mayor prize in recognition of his environmental and civil-rights initiatives within the Federal District.

In April 2011, Marcelo Ebrard announced his divorce from Pratts through an official press release.

On 7 October 2011, Ebrard married for the third time to Rosalinda Bueso, the former Honduran ambassador to Mexico.

Many saw this as an attempt to dismiss López Obrador and now rely on Ebrard to win the presidency in the 2012 presidential elections.

Affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) since 2018, he was appointed to lead the foreign ministry by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on 1 December 2018.

In June 2023, he resigned from his post to compete for his party's presidential candidacy for the 2024 election.

He has previously served as president of the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities.