Carolina Mejía

Rosa Carolina Mejía Gómez de Garrigó (born 28 March 1969) is a Dominican politician, economist, and businesswoman.

Rosa Carolina Mejía Gómez was born in Santiago de los Caballeros on 28 March 1969 to Hipólito Mejía, agronomist and President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004, and Rosa Gómez Arias, the former First Lady of the Dominican Republic.

[2][3] She married Juan Antonio Garrigó Lefeld, insurance and brokerage businessman of Catalan and German descent and they had three children, Juan de Jesús, Diego José, and Isabel Carolina Garrigó Mejía.

[4] In the early 2000s she was a member of the board of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic.

[1] On 24 April 2020, Mejía took office as mayor of Santo Domingo, becoming the first woman to lead the Dominican Republic capital city;[7] she was re-elected on 18 February 2024.