Marcelo Ebrard | |
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President of the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities | |
Assumed office September 3, 2012 |
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Appointed by | Joan Clos |
Preceded by | Position established |
5th Head of Government of the Federal District | |
In office December 5, 2006 – December 4, 2012 |
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Preceded by | Alejandro Encinas |
Succeeded by | Miguel Ángel Mancera |
Personal details | |
Born |
Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón October 10, 1959 Mexico City, Mexico |
Political party |
Citizens' Movement (2014–present) |
Other political affiliations |
Institutional Revolutionary Party (1978–1999) Democratic Center Party of Mexico (1999–2000) Party of the Democratic Revolution (2000–2014) |
Spouse(s) | Francesca Ramos Morgan (?–2005) Mariagna Pratts (2006–2011) Rosalinda Bueso (2011–present) |
Alma mater | El Colegio de México |
Website | Marcelo Ebrard |
Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón (Spanish pronunciation: [maɾˈselo eˈβɾaɾð]; born October 10, 1959) is a Mexican politician affiliated until 2015 to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and current President of the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities. He previously served as Head of Government of the Federal District of the United Mexican States from December 2006 to December 2012. He also served as Secretary-General of the former Mexican Federal District Department, minister of public security and minister of social development of the Mexican capital. In 2010, Ebrard was nominated as the "world's best mayor" by the Project World Mayor. He was the successful candidate of the PRD-led electoral alliance to serve as Head of Government of the Federal District in the 2006 Federal District election. From 2009 to 2012, he was the Chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change.
Descendent 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, and specialized in public administration and planning at the École nationale d'administration of France. 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. In April 2011, Marcelo Ebrard announced his divorce from Mariagna Pratts through an official press release. In October 7, 2011; Ebrard married for the third time, with Rosalinda Bueso, former Honduras ambassador to Mexico.