Claudia López Hernández was elected Mayor of Bogotá in October 2019 as the first woman in this position. She graduated in Finance, Government, and International Relations from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Urban Politics from Columbia University, New York and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. She has been a consultant to the United Nations and was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced in November 2020.
