Claudia Lopez
Former Colombian Senator and Mayor of Bogotá
Claudia Lopez became Bogotá's first female and first lesbian Mayor in the city’s history in 2019. She has an emphatic focus on the environmental, education, social equity and anticorruption agendas. Lopez was a Senator of the Republic of Colombia between 2014 and 2018 and vice-presidential candidate in the 2018 presidential election for the Green Alliance party. The public recognizes her tenacity and enormous capacity for collective action, which was reflected in the fight against corruption by leading a citizen consultancy, a participatory instrument, with historic results. Before entering her political career, Lopez was an accomplished researcher and scholar. Lopez is a finance and international relations graduate from Universidad Externado de Colombia, holds a master’s degree in public administration and urban policy from SIPA-Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. Currently, she is an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University.