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Biography

Patricia Chemor Ruiz, a psychologist from Mexico, has been the Secretary-General of the National Council for Population (CONAPO) of Mexico since 2013.

Since she took office, CONAPO has launched a successful campaign to prevent adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections and to promote life goals among Mexican adolescents and young people.

Prior to this role, she was the Director of Food and Family Nutrition of the National System for the Integral Development of the Family in Mexico and Director of Television with the System of Mexican Radio and Television. Until January 2013, she was Technical Secretary of the State Population Council of the Government of the State of Mexico, charged with guiding the population policy of the country’s most populous state. Under her guidance, the State of Mexico promoted the decentralization of population planning by creating 125 municipal population councils. She was Coordinator of the Central Region Subcommission of the National Council for Population, composed of the states of Querétaro, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Morelos, Hidalgo, Mexico and Mexico City (2012).

Patricia Chemor Ruiz has attended the International Conference on Population and Development in New York for the last three years, reporting on the experience of the Mexican population policy, while serving as Vice-Chair in 2016 and Chair in 2015 of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

She has a degree in Psychology from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico.

Patricia Chemor Ruiz
Secretary-General of the National Council for Population (CONAPO) of Mexico

Patricia Chemor Ruiz

Secretary-General of the National Council for Population (CONAPO) of Mexico