Rosario Piedra Ibarra | |
Office: | President of the National Human Rights Commission |
Term Start: | 16 November 2019 |
Predecessor: | Luis Raúl González Pérez |
Appointed: | Senate of Mexico |
Nominator: | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
Birth Name: | María del Rosario Piedra Ibarra |
Birth Date: | 14 July 1951 |
Birth Place: | Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
Party: | Morena (since 2015) |
Spouse: | Germán Segovia Escobedo |
Father: | Jesús Piedra Rosales |
Mother: | Rosario Ibarra |
Alma Mater: | Autonomous University of Nuevo León |
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]
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).
In 2018, she was the congressional candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) for the 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.