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Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, a Mexican biologist, is deputy chief of staff to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, appointed 8 December 2005. She is a former undersecretary of Environment and former director of the National Institute of Fisheries (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Pesca) in Mexico.
Bárcena Ibarra holds a bachelor's degree in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master's degree in administration from Harvard University. On March 3, 2006, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced the appointment of Alicia Bárcena Ibarra of Mexico as Acting Chief de Cabinet in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. Her appointment would take effect upon the departure of the Deputy Secretary-General, Louise Fréchette, and Mark Malloch Brown’s assumption of his new duties as Deputy Secretary-General
