Carolina Monroy del Mazo

Carolina Monroy del Mazo (born 21 August 1962) is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She has served as the general secretary of the PRI and as a federal deputy during the 63rd session of Congress, representing the 27th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico.

Early life and education Monroy obtained her law degree in 1983 from the Universidad del Valle de Toluca and briefly taught there between 1984 and 1985.

Career Monroy worked for a wide variety of institutions in the state government, including the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (1982–84), General Secretariat of Government (1984–86), General Directorate of Prevention and Social Readaptation (1988–93), DIF (1993–2000), State Population Council (2000–01), State of Mexico Cultural Institute (2001–05), Social Security Institute of the State of Mexico (2005) and Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense (2006–09). In 2009, she was named to the state cabinet as the Secretary of Economic Development, a post she held until 2011. a capacity in which she served until Enrique Ochoa Reza became the party's president.

Personal Monroy is a niece of Alfredo del Mazo González, former Governor of the State of Mexico and Secretary of Energy, and cousin of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who also governed the state; she is married to Ernesto Nemer Álvarez, General Secretary of Government of the State of Mexico and subsecretary of the Secretariat of Social Development.