Susana Villaran Mayor of Lima -Peru
Susana Villarán Susana María del Carmen Villarán de la Puente is a centre-left politician in Peru , a former presidential candidate, and in municipal elections in 2010 became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Lima . Born in Lima on 16 August 1949, she is vice-president of the Social Force Decentralisation Party ( Partido Descentralista Fuerza Social , FS) and formerly worked as a journalist and a secondary school teacher. Political life She was a member of Lima's Metropolitan Municipality from 1983 to 1985, and co-founded with former mayor Alfonso Barrantes Lingán the Vaso de leche (glass of milk) program promoting child nutrition. In 2000 Villarán was elected national co-ordinator of the Party for Social Democracy ( Partido por la Democracia Social - Compromiso Perú , PDS). She became Minister for Women and Social Development during Valentín Paniagua 's transitory government in 2001, and in 2002 she assumed the role of Police Ombudsman