US, March 23 -- Although Mexico's past president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been her political mentor, Dr. Sheinbaum is now making a name for herself.

She not only holds a Ph.D. in energy engineering, but in 2007 she was part of the United Nation's intergovernmental Panel dealing with climate change.

The team shared along with then Vice President Al Gore a Nobel Prize for her work in environmental science and global climate change.

Dr. Sheinbaum tends to lean left in her politics but is not an ideologist and makes decisions not on her personal preferences but on how she interprets the data presented to her. From that perspective, she has demonstrated during this first year in office that she is a pragmatist rather than a politic...