Mexico City’s mayoral election is scheduled for June 2024. The race carries particular weight, as it happens concurrently with the presidential election and Mexico City is the largest city in the country. The latest addition to the race is Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, a member of the Movimiento Ciudadano party, former health minister of Mexico from 2011 to 2012, and currently serving in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Chertorivski is running on an “independent” platform, rejecting alliances with governing and opposition parties and putting security and inequality at the forefront of his campaign. What issues are at the top of Chertorivski’s agenda, and what are the greatest challenges and opportunities awaiting the next mayor of Mexico City? The Georgetown Americas Institute hosted Salomón Chertorivski for a conversation on the importance of this election and share his vision for Mexico City.
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Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg is an economist and public administrator with a long career in Mexican public service. He worked as health secretary under President Felipe Calderon and as head of Mexico City’s Economic Development Secretariat under Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera. Since September 2021, he has served in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies with the Movimiento Ciudadano party. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University.
Alejandro Werner is the founding director of the Georgetown Americas Institute and a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute. He recently completed almost nine years as director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that appointment, he was undersecretary of finance and public credit in Mexico’s Finance Ministry and held several positions in that ministry and the Central Bank. He also taught at leading universities in Mexico, Spain, and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).