Sofía Ramírez Aguilar is the general director at México, ¿Cómo Vamos? since 2020, where she regularly contributes economic, political, and social analysis to national media outlets.
Previously, Ramírez Aguilar served as deputy director of applied research at Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción, where she specialized in the anti-corruption agenda, transparency, and accountability. She has advised Mexico’s Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) in both local and federal elections and collaborated on training, research, public policy, and entrepreneurship projects with leading academic institutions, including Rice University’s Baker Institute, the Center for U.S.–Mexican Studies at UC San Diego and El Colegio de México (Colmex).
Her public service includes roles as minister at the embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C.; director general of the Technical Secretariat of the National Security Council; and chief of advisors to the Undersecretariat of Population and Migration at Mexico’s Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB). She has also been a member of the Economic Studies Committee of the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF) since 2022 and part of the group of economists convened by Banamex since 2023. In 2024, Forbes México recognized her as one of the country’s most influential economists.
She also sits on several advisory councils, including the Center for Economic Studies of the Private Sector (CEESP), the Political Strategy Group (GEP), and the Users’ Council of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). From 2019 to 2024, she was a member of the advisory council of the Mexico City Government’s Digital Agency for Public Innovation (ADIP), where she chaired the council. Internationally, she was selected as a binational fellow of Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) in 2025 and is an alumna of the European Union Victors Programme (2024). She was accredited as a civil society representative at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in both 2024 and 2025. She holds a master’s degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
Ramírez Aguilar was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
