Cabinet Profile: Mario Delgado, Secretary of Education

Mario Delgado Carrillo serves as Secretary of Education (Secretario de Educación Pública) in the cabinet of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

The official title of the department in Spanish is the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP), the Secretariat of Public Education.

Mario Delgado Carrillo was born in 1972 in Colima, capital city of the state of the same name on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

From 1991 to 1995, Mario Delgado studied at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City, earning a bachelor’s in economics. After that Delgado studied at the University of Essex, in England, from 1996 to 1997, earning a master’s degree in economics.

When Marcelo Ebrard served as mayor of Mexico City from 2006 to 2012, Mario Delgado served in the Mexico City government as Secretary of Finance (2006-2010) and Secretary of Education (2010-2012).

From 2012 to 2018, Delgado was a senator in the Mexican Congress.

From 2018 to 2020, Delgado represented Mexico City in the Mexican Congress, where he was coordinator of the MORENA party delegation in the Chamber of Deputies (Mexican House of Representatives).

From Nov. 5th, 2020 to September 30th, 2024, Delgado was president of the MORENA party.

On October 1st, 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum became President of Mexico and on that day Mario Delgado became Mexico’s Secretary of Education.