Confronting Poverty And Inequality In Mexico: The Challenge Of Social Policy
Center for U.S. - Mexican Studies
Beatriz Zavala Peniche
Mexico’s Minister of Social Development
October 15, 2007
Location: IOA Complex, Weaver Center
Open to: Public
Born in Mérida, Beatriz Zavala holds a degree in sociology from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán in Mexico and a masters in sociology from the University of Kentucky. She has been a member of the National Action Party (PAN) of Mexico since 1995 and has occupied positions as the party’s advisor and member of the National Executive Committee. She has extensive legislative experience having served as congressional representative in the 62nd and 59th Federal Legislature, and in the 56th State Legislature of Yucatán. Zavala initiated the approval of the General Law on Social Development in 2004. She was a senator in the 60th Federal Legislature, where she also served as president of the Commission on Education.
