Jesús María Tarriba

Born on September 1, 1962, in the Mexican city of Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Born to Jaime Tarriba Rodil, and Beatriz Unger Ferreia, his father was originally from Culiacán and his mother from Mazatlán.^[9]

He studied at the Instituto Cultural de Occidente in his hometown. In 1977, at the age of 15, he moved to Mexico City to study at a private high school.^[10]

He completed his studies at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),^[11] where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics in 1988, a master's degree in 1989  and a doctorate in Physical Sciences in 1994, with the thesis: " Optical and magnetic response of systems with interfaces ". During his training, he also completed a doctoral stay at the University of California at Irvine, which earned him the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, awarded by the Mexican Academy of Sciences, for the best doctoral thesis.^[12]

In 1993 he was technical director at the United Advisors Group (GAUSSC).^[13]

Since 2017, he has been a financial risk specialist at the Bank of Mexico.^[14]

He married anthropologist Martha Tello Díaz, with whom he had a daughter. The couple later separated.^[15]

During his college years, he met Claudia Sheinbaum, whom he dated for a year.^[16] In December 2016, after returning from Spain, he met Sheinbaum again, and they began a relationship.^[17] On November 17, 2023, after a seven-year relationship, they married in a private ceremony.^[18]