Ariadna Montiel Reyes

Ariadna Montiel Reyes (born 29 May 1974) is a Mexican politician who served as secretary of welfare from 2022 until 2026. From 2018 to 2022, she served as undersecretary of welfare.

Political career Ariadna Montiel Reyes was born in Mexico City in 1974, where she studied architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In the early 2000s she held various positions within the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and, in the 2006 general election, she was elected to the Senate as the alternate of María Rojo (but never had occasion to serve).

Between 2012 and 2015 she was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, including a term as the Assembly's president. In the 2015 mid-terms she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the PRD ticket to represent Mexico City's 23rd district (Coyoacán) during the 63rd session of Congress.

She took office as the undersecretary for social and human development within the Secretariat of Welfare at the start of the presidential term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in December 2018. On 11 January 2022 she was appointed secretary of welfare, replacing Javier May Rodríguez.