Alicia Bárcena

Alicia Bárcena Ibarra
Ibarra in 2024
Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources
Assumed office
1 October 2024
PresidentClaudia Sheinbaum
Preceded byMaría Luisa Albores
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
In office
3 July 2023  1 October 2024
PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byMarcelo Ebrard
Succeeded byJuan Ramón de la Fuente
Ambassador of Mexico to Chile
In office
30 September 2022  30 June 2023
PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byFrancisco Olavarría Patiño
Succeeded byLaura Moreno Rodríguez
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
In office
1 July 2008  31 March 2022
Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon
António Guterres
Preceded byJosé Luis Machinea
Succeeded byJosé Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
Personal details
Born (1952-03-05) 5 March 1952
Mexico City, Mexico
Alma materNational Autonomous University of Mexico (BS)
Harvard University (MPA)

Alicia Isabel Adriana Bárcena Ibarra (born 5 March 1952) is a Mexican biologist and the current Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico. She was the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2023 to 2024 and previously served as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from July 2008 to March 2022.