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Rocío Nahle García

Río Grande, Zacatecas – April 14, 1964

Rocío Nahle García is a Mexican chemical engineer and politician, and a member of the Morena political party. Since December 1, 2024, she has served as the Governor of Veracruz, becoming the first woman in history to hold this position.

Nahle earned her degree in Chemical Engineering from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ), where she studied from 1981 to 1986, with a specialization in Petrochemistry. She later completed a diploma in Process Chemical Engineering from UNAM, and another in Economic Feasibility of Industrial Processes from the University of Veracruz.

Her professional career began at the PEMEX petrochemical complexes in Pajaritos, Cangrejera, and Morelos, where she held various roles in administration, finance, process management, planning, and quality control. In the private sector, she worked with Industrias Resistol.

Nahle is an active member of the Pemex Engineers Group "Constitution of 1917" (G-17) and the National Committee for Energy Studies (CNEE) for Latin America and the Caribbean. She has also served as an advisor to the Energy Commission in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies during the LIX and LXI Legislatures, and to the Senate of the Republic in the LXII Legislature.

Graciela Márquez Colín

Mexico City – February 10, 1963

Graciela Márquez Colín is a Mexican public official, economist, historian, and academic. Since January 1, 2022, she has served as President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a role to which she was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Before 2018, Márquez had never held a public office. As an academic, she is recognized as a specialist in economic history and served as a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México from 1998 to 2018.

She held the position of Secretary of Economy from 2018 to 2020, during the López Obrador administration. After stepping down, she was appointed Vice President of INEGI from January to December 2021, and later nominated and confirmed by the Mexican Senate as President of the Institute in January 2022.