Claudia López served as Mayor of Bogotá from January 2020 until December 2023. As Bogotá’s first female and first openly LGBTQ+ mayor, she had an emphatic focus on environmental, social and anti-corruption issues. López additionally served as Senator of the Republic of Colombia between 2014 and 2018 and ran as the Green Alliance Party's Vice-Presidential Candidate in the 2018 Colombian presidential election. As a senator, she set an example in the fight against corruption, with results never seen before, and became a prominent figure in the political arena. The public recognizes her tenacity and enormous capacity for collective action, which led her to make her way into academia and public service, becoming the first woman to be elected by popular vote to Colombia’s second most important office. Claudia López is a finance and international relations graduate from Universidad Externado de Colombia, holds a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University and a PhD in political science from Northwestern University.