MEXICO CITY, Aug. 26, 2025/ PRNewswire/– The Ford Structure today revealed the consultation of Ximena Andión Ibañez as the next local director of its Mexico and Central America workplace. She is successful Helena Hofbauer Balmori, who will commit her time totally to her function as director of the Civic Engagement and Federal government International program, which she assisted launch and has actually led with vision and effect for the last 6 years.
” Ximena brings a wealth of experience, a deep understanding of the area, and tested dedication to social justice,” stated Martín Abregú, vice president for global programs at the Ford Structure “Her management will develop on the tradition Helena leaves in Mexico and Central America and I am positive she will continue to play an essential function ahead of time and reinforcing our work throughout the area.”
Andión Ibañez signed up with the structure in 2019 and has actually held functions as program officer and deputy local director for Mexico and Central America In her time at Ford, she has actually established an ingenious program and portfolio for the area, linking regional and worldwide concerns. She likewise played a leading function in structure robust alliances amongst civil society, philanthropy, and federal governments.
” It is an honor to enter this brand-new function leading the structure’s operate in Mexico and Central America to assist advance our shared dedication to justice throughout the area,” stated Ximena Andión Ibañez, Mexico and Central America local director for the Ford Structure “I eagerly anticipate continuing to deal with our beneficiaries and partners to tactically attend to immediate difficulties, reinforce democracy, and promote responsibility, and financial and social justice.”
With more than 25 years of experience dealing with justice, human rights and gender equality, Andión Ibañez formerly acted as executive director of the feminist company Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir. Previously in her profession, she operated at leading civil society companies in Mexico, consisting of the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos and Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida, in addition to at the global level with the Center for Reproductive Rights.
She has actually likewise served with the United Nations Workplace for the High Commissioner for Human Being Rights in both Mexico and Guatemala and has actually spoken with for different humanitarian structures and UN firms. A teacher of females’s rights at the Universidad Iberoamericana, she holds a masters in global human rights law from the University of Essex and an expertise in human rights and democratization procedures from the Universidad de Chile
The Ford Structure’s Mexico and Central America workplace was developed in 1962. Today the workplace concentrates on our Civic Engagement and Federal Government International and Natural Resources and Environment Justice programs.
The Ford Structure
The Ford Structure is an independent company working to attend to inequality and develop a future grounded in justice. For more than 85 years, it has actually supported visionaries on the frontlines of social modification worldwide, directed by its objective to reinforce democratic worths, decrease hardship and oppression, promote global cooperation, and advance human accomplishment. Today, with an endowment of $ 16 billion, the structure has head office in New York City and 10 local workplaces throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
SOURCE Ford Structure