Esteban Moctezuma

Esteban Moctezuma
Esteban Moctezuma
Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 16 January 2021
President	Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded by	Martha Bárcena Coqui
Secretary of Public Education
	In office; 1 December 2018 – 15 January 2021
President	Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded by	Otto Granados Roldán
Succeeded by	Delfina Gómez Álvarez
Secretary of Social Development
	In office; 13 May 1998 – 4 August 1999
President	Ernesto Zedillo
Preceded by	Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
Succeeded by	Carlos Jarque
Secretary of the Interior
	In office; 1 December 1994 – 28 June 1995
President	Ernesto Zedillo
Preceded by	Jorge Carpizo McGregor
Succeeded by	Emilio Chuayffet
Personal details
Born	21 October 1954; Mexico City, Mexico
Political party	National Regeneration Movement; (2018–present)
Other political; affiliations	Institutional Revolutionary (1977–2002)
Residence	Mexico
Education	National Autonomous University of Mexico (BA); University of Cambridge (MA)

Esteban Moctezuma Barragán (born 21 October 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican diplomat and politician, formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and is a member of MORENA. He is a former Senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. From that position, early in January 1995, he pursued peace talks in Chiapas with the EZLN insurgents; in February the government pursued a strategy of military intervention, followed by a resumption of peace talks with the insurgents. In 2018, he was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as secretary of education. On 16 December 2020, Moctezuma was nominated ambassador of Mexico to the United States and confirmed by the Senate on 16 January 2021.

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