Josefa González-Blanco Ortiz-Mena

Josefa González Blanco Ortiz Mena (born 9 March 1965)[1] is a Mexican ecologist, politician and diplomat from the National Regeneration Movement who was the Secretary of Environment from 2018 to 2019.

[3] On 9 June 2021, she presented her credentials to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace accrediting her as Mexico's representative to the United Kingdom.

In 2018, she assumed the title of the Secretariat as the first secretary of the environment and natural resources of the López Obrador administration, becoming the second woman to hold the position in the history of the federal agency.

[7] On 25 May 2019, she resigned from her office as environment secretary after causing delay to a commercial flight she was meant to board.

On 23 April 2021, she officially assumed her duties as representative of Mexico in London, after presenting a copy of her credentials to the ministry of foreign affairs.