María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza
Director of the Faculty of Psychology
National Autonomous University of Mexico

PhD in Social Psychology by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, acronym in Spanish) and member of the National College. Director of the Faculty of Psychology, UNAM and affiliated to the Global Mental Health Research Center of the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, she was general director of the latter from 2008 to 2018. She is Emeritus Researcher of the Coordinating Commission of the National Institutes of Health and Hospitals of High Specialty and the National System of Researchers. Among other awards, she received the Gerardo Varela National Public Health Award from the General Health Council in 1986 and the 2011 National Institute on Drug Abuse Award of Excellence in International Leadership.