Ana María Cetto has a Master in Biophysics from Harvard, and Master and Ph.D. in Physics from UNAM. She does research on the foundations of quantum mechanics at the Institute of Physics and teaches at the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM. She has published 25 books and 290 scholarly papers, and has been inter alia Director of the Faculty of Sciences, the Museum of Light and the Mexican Journal of Physics. She is a co-founder of the Third World Organization for Women in Science (OWSD), and has served as a consultant to UNESCO for the World Conference on Science, member of the Governing Board of the United Nations University, and Secretary General of the International Council for Science. She is the founding President of LATINDEX, past President of the Mexican Physical Society (SMF), head of the project Lights over the City, holder of the UNESCO Chair on Diplomacy and Heritage of Science at UNAM, and Chair of the UNESCO Global Open Science Steering Committee, former Deputy Director General of the IAEA. She has received, among others, the national awards for the Development of Physics (2002) and for Scientific Research from the SMF (2012), the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (2023), and the Oganesson Prize in 2024. In 2003 she was named Woman of the Year in Mexico.