Graciela Rojas Montemayor
For more than 20 years, she has promoted scientific thinking as a path to sustainable development and social well-being. She is an expert in systemic change and social innovation, having developed a unique framework to generate high impact and influence educational policy.
In 2014, she was awarded the National Entrepreneur Award and in 2015, the National Quality Award. She was also named an Ashoka Fellow in 2022 and Mexico’s representative for GWIM in 2025.
She has been recognized for her drive to the STEM+ Ecosystem as one of the most outstanding executives in the country by the magazine Expansión, Mundo Ejecutivo, Opinión 51 and by Forbes, as one of the 100 most powerful women.
Her commitment to highlighting STEM talent has led her to be named one of Mexico’s most influential figures by Quién50, a Game Changer by the Globant Awards, and High Impact Allies by Dalia Empower and Heraldo Media Group.
Distinguished as one of the 100 leading women in the world in STEM, her vision and leadership are today a benchmark for Latin America.
“Let’s keep the conversation going…”
Why is STEM important?
According to the United Nations, the generation between 9 and 19 is the first one that could end extreme poverty and the last that can effectively combat climate change. Failing to influence this generation would mean failing as humanity!
Let’s not forget, we are living in the era of Artificial Intelligence, yet our young talent is not acquiring the essential skills demanded by an increasingly technological world.
In this global context, the world’s greatest bet is STEM Education.