| Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas | |
| Office: | 54th President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Term Start: | 16 July 2018 |
| Term End: | 18 August 2019 |
| Predecessor: | René Juárez Cisneros |
| Office1: | Secretary-General of the Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Term Start1: | 4 March 2017 |
| Term End1: | 16 July 2018 |
| President1: | Enrique Ochoa Reza René Juárez Cisneros |
| Successor1: | Rubén Moreira Valdez |
| Office2: | Secretary of Foreign Affairs |
| President2: | Enrique Peña Nieto |
| Term Start2: | 27 August 2015 |
| Term End2: | 4 January 2017 |
| Predecessor2: | José Antonio Meade |
| Successor2: | Luis Videgaray Caso |
| Office3: | Secretary of Tourism |
| President3: | Enrique Peña Nieto |
| Term Start3: | 1 December 2012 |
| Term End3: | 27 August 2015 |
| Predecessor3: | Gloria Guevara |
| Successor3: | Enrique de la Madrid |
| Birth Date: | 10 July 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Party: | Institutional Revolutionary |
| Father: | José Francisco Ruiz Massieu |
| Mother: | Adriana Salinas de Gortari |
| Children: | María Ricalde Ruiz Massieu José Francisco Ricalde Ruiz Massieu Lucía Ricalde Ruiz Massieu |
| Alma Mater: | Ibero-American University |
Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, (born 10 July 1972) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs following her appointment by President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2015 to which she resigned on 4 January 2017.[1]
Previously, she served as Secretary of Tourism from 2012 to 2015, having as a major achievement taking Mexico from the 15th to the 10th place for international tourist arrivals according to WTO. During President Peña Nietos transition period she was in charge of Human Rights and Transparency Affairs. She has also served two terms as Congresswoman, for the LIX and LXI Legislatures of the Mexican Congress.
Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas[2] is the daughter of José Francisco Ruiz Massieu,[3] and niece to former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Her father served as governor for the State of Guerrero, as well as secretary general of the national executive committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She is a law graduate from the Universidad Iberoamericana, where she achieved her title with the thesis: "Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu's Judiciary Theory on Constitutional and Administrative Law".
She holds a master's degree in comparative politics by FLACSO Mexico and is currently a doctorate candidate in public law and philosophy by the University of Madrid, Spain.
Ruiz Massieu Salinas served two terms as Congresswoman, for the LIX (2003-2006) and LXI (2009-2012) Legislatures of the Mexican Congress.
On January 4, 2007 she was appointed as General Coordinator for Planning, Development and Institutional Innovation at the Attorney General´s Office. And as of 2006 she served as Chief of Staff for the Executive Secretariat of the National Security System on the Secretary of Public Security.
During the transition period of President Enrique Peña Nieto as President Elect, she was in charge of Human Rights and Transparency Affairs. After that, on November 30, 2012, President Peña Nieto appointed her as Secretary of Tourism, charge she left on August 21, 2015, when she was named as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, to which she resigned on January 4, 2017.
At the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México she worked as research assistant at the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas from 1995 to 1997. Then she integrated to the technical academic team on the International Commerce research unit also at the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas. In 1997 she became a Law professor at Universidad Anahuac Sur.
Regular writer at the newspaper El Universal, as personal opinion writer, but also with the column "México Global", during her time as Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
During this time she was part of the following Committees:
During this time she was part of the following Committees:
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