Fernanda Rivera

Fernanda Rivera
This photo is mine

I am a Mexican senior specialist in sustainable mobility and public policy, with over 12 years of experience leading cycling, public transport, and road safety initiatives in Mexico City. As the former General Director of Public Transport, Sustainable Mobility and Road Safety at the city’s Ministry of Mobility, I played a key role in modernizing public transport operations, implementing Mexico City’s Bike Share system, and advancing policies on road safety, gender-inclusive mobility, digitalization to improve user experience, on-street parking, and taxi and ride-hailing regulations.

Currently, I am a Chevening Scholar pursuing a Master’s in Transport and City Planning at University College London. I studied Public Policy and Administration at El Colegio de México. I am feminist and an urban cyclist, passionate about making cities equitable and more accessible—especially for those who are often left out of transport conversations.

Selected speaking engagements

London School of Economics, Data-Driven Mobility, March 2025.Transparencia Mexicana, Being a women in the transport sector, March 2025.

COP29 Popular transportation and NHC, Mexico City’s Experience, November 2024. Baku, Azerbaiyan

Transforming Transportation, Speaker on Micromobility Regulation (2020), Sustainable Mobility (2023) and  Popular Transportation (2024) Washington, USA.

Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI), Presentation of Mexico City’s cycling policies, London, 2023.


Smartcity Barcelona, Plenary presentation on Cycling Mobility in CDMX, Barcelona, Spain, 2019. 

Awards and recognitions

World Health Organization 2022
Advisory Board  Member of the Fourth Global Status Report on Road Safety (2023)

NUMO Alliance 2020
Technical specialist of the working group on micromobility regulation in Latin American cities. 

Innovation and Leadership in Government Program 2023      GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Executive education program organized by Georgetown University’s Latin America Leadership Program (LALP)

Fernanda Rivera
This photo is mine