Susana Villarán

Susana Villarán
Mayor of Lima
In office
January 1, 2011  December 31, 2014
Preceded byMarco Parra Sánchez (interim)
Succeeded byLuis Castañeda Lossio
Minister of the Promotion of Women and of Human Development
In office
November 22, 2000  July 28, 2001
PresidentValentín Paniagua
Preceded byLuisa María Cuculiza
Succeeded byDoris Sánchez
Personal details
Born (1949-08-16) 16 August 1949
Lima, Peru
Political partyFuerza Social
Spouse(s)Manuel Piqueras Luna
(separated)
ChildrenEmmanuel, Soledad and Ignacio
ProfessionJournalist
WebsiteSusana Villarán

Susana María del Carmen Villarán de la Puente is a left politician in Peru, a former presidential candidate, and in municipal elections in 2010 became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Lima.

She is vice president of the Decentralist Social Force Party (Partido Descentralista Fuerza Social, FS) and formerly worked as a journalist and a secondary school teacher.