30 Notable alumni of
Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
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The Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador is 1630th in the world, 67th in Latin America, and 3rd in Ecuador by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jamil Mahuad
- Occupations
- civil servantlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt is an Ecuadorian lawyer, academic and former politician who served the 41st president of Ecuador from 1998 until he was deposed in a coup in 2000. He previously served as the 17th mayor of Quito from 1992 to 1998.
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Osvaldo Hurtado
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- writerjuristlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Luis Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea is an Ecuadorian author and politician who served as President of Ecuador from 24 May 1981 to 10 August 1984.
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Fabián Alarcón
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Fabián Ernesto Alarcón Rivera is an Ecuadorian former politician who served as the 40th president of Ecuador from 1997 to 1998. He previously served as the president of the National Congress from 1991 to 1992 and again from 1995 to 1997.
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María Fernanda Espinosa
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Graduated with licentiate in linguistics
- Occupations
- writerpoetdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés is an Ecuadorian linguist, poet, politician, and diplomat. Currently, is Executive Director of GWL Voices, an NGO dedicated to achieve a gender-equal multilateral system. She served as an advisor on biodiversity and indigenous peoples (1999-2005) and was the regional director for South America (2005-2007) at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Espinosa Garcés was Ecuador's Minister of Foreign Affairs twice, from 2007 to 2008 and then from 2017 to 2018. She also served as ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York (2008-2009) and Geneva (2014-2017), and as Ecuador's Minister of National Defense (2012-2014). In June 2018, she was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 73rd session by a two-thirds vote of the member states. Espinosa Garcés became the fourth woman in the seventy-three-year history of the United Nations to be elected President of the General Assembly. Besides her political career, she is also a poet and essayist.
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Rosalía Arteaga Serrano
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- lawyerwriterpolitician
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Rosalía Arteaga Serrano is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the 39th president of Ecuador for two days in 1997 from 9 to 11 February. She previously served as the 40th vice president under President Abdalá Bucaram from 1996 until his removal from office 1997; when the vagueness of the constitution left uncertainty as to the vice president or the head of congress becoming president, Arteaga was sworn in, but was peacefully replaced two days later by congressional leader Fabián Alarcón. She continued as vice president under Alarcón until March 1998. She is the country's first ever female head of state.
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Mauricio Rodas
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mauricio Esteban Rodas Espinel is an Ecuadorian lawyer, social policy consultant, and politician who served as the Metropolitan Mayor of Quito between May 2014 and May 2019. After working in other Latin American cities, including Mexico City, he returned to Ecuador to enter politics. He founded the SUMA Party, and was the youngest person every to be elected as Mayor of Quito.
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Eugenia del Pino
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- biologist
- Biography
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Eugenia María del Pino Veintimilla is a developmental biologist at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador) in Quito. She was the first Ecuadorian citizen to be elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (2006). She was awarded the 2019 Prize of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology for her strong contributions to research in Ecuador, and in general to promoting Developmental Biology in Latin America.
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Julio César Trujillo
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- In 1958 graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- juristlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Julio César Trujillo Vásquez was an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. Born in Ibarra, he served as a member of the National Congress from 1979 to 1984. Described by Forbes as "reshaping the landscape of Ecuadorian politics," Trujillo was a presidential candidate of the Popular Democracy-Christian Democratic Union during the 1984 general election, receiving a total of 103,790 (4.7%) votes. In 2018, he was appointed president of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), prompting The Economist to refer to Trujillo as "Ecuador's second-most powerful man." He died in office in 2019.
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Luis Cabrera Herrera
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, OFM, is an Ecuadorian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Guayaquil since 2015. He was Archbishop of Cuenca from 2009 to 2015. He has been president of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference since 2020, having served as its vice president from 2011 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2020. On 7 December 2024, Pope Francis made Cabrera a cardinal.
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Ana Galarza
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Studied organizational psychology
- Graduated with lawyer
- Occupations
- lawyerpsychologistpolitician
- Biography
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Ana Mercedes Galarza Añazco (born August 24, 1988 in Ambato, Tungurahua, Ecuador is an Ecuadorian politician and beauty pageant titleholder who placed first runner-up at Miss Ecuador 2010. She was elected to the National Assembly in 2017.
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Diego Borja
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- economist
- Biography
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Diego Borja Cornejo is an Ecuadorian economist and politician. He is the Citizen Revolution Movement vice presidential candidate in the 2025 general election as the running mate of Luisa González.
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Enrique Ayala Mora
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- 1968-1975 graduated with licentiate in education and law
- Occupations
- historianjournalistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Manuel Enrique Alejandro Ayala Mora is a historian, political editorial writer, and a professor of Ecuador, who has been ideologue of the Socialist Party of Ecuador, and founder and former rector of the headquarters of Quito from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
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Jorge Salvador Lara
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- writerhistorianlawyerdiplomatpolitician
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Jorge Salvador Lara was an Ecuadorian politician diplomat, columnist, writer, and historian. Lara served as the foreign minister of Ecuador for two separate tenures. He first served as foreign minister in 1966 within the government of interim president Clemente Yerovi. Lara again became foreign minister from 1976 to 1977 within the military regime of Vice Admiral Alfredo Poveda.
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Luis Macas
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Studied linguistics
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Luis Macas Ambuludí is a Kichwa politician and intellectual from Saraguro, Ecuador.
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Roque Sevilla
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- politicianenvironmentalistbusinesspersonhotel ownereconomist
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Roque Simón Sevilla Larrea is an Ecuadorian economist, businessman, environmentalist and politician. He was the Metropolitan Mayor of Quito between 1998 and 2000. He is President of the "Grupo Futuro" that brings together various companies including tourism, insurance, and the environment.
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Guillermo Celi
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- lawyerpolitician
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Guillermo Alejandro Celi Santos is a doctor of jurisprudence, lawyer, and Ecuadorian politician, known for being the national director of the SUMA Party. On May 17, 2017, he took office as a National Assembly Member after being elected in the 2017 Ecuadorian general election for the SUMA-CREO alliance.
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Fander Falconí
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- diplomateconomistpolitician
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Fander Falconí Benitez, is an Ecuadorian economist and politician. He served as Foreign Minister (known in Ecuador as "Chancellor") in the government of President Rafael Correa from December 2008 until his resignation on 13 January 2010 because of the Yasuní oil project.
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Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín
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- Catholic bishoplawyerCatholic priest
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Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín, was archbishop of Guayaquil for ten years, and the first member of the prelature of Opus Dei in Ecuador. He was also a distinguished lawyer, frequently consulted about Ecuadorian Civil law and the author of more than 60 books about jurisprudence.
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Galo Chiriboga
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Graduated with PhD in Law
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Galo Chiriboga is an Ecuadorian lawyer, politician, administrator and the president of "La Asociación Interamericana de Juristas". He is best known as the "Oil Minister for Ecuador".
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Mauricio Pozo Crespo
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Mauricio Pozo Crespo is an Ecuadorian politician, banker and economist from Quito, Ecuador. He was the Minister of Economy and Finance from 2020 to 2021 under President Lenín Moreno and previously, from 2003 to 2004, under President Lucio Gutiérrez.
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Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus S.D.B. is an Ecuadorian prelate of the Catholic Church who was named Archbishop of Quito on 5 April 2019.
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Pamela Aguirre Zambonino
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- lawyerpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Pamela Alejandra Aguirre Zambonino is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. She is member of the Andean Parliament since 2017.
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Eduardo Estrella Aguirre
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- physicianscientist
- Biography
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Eduardo Estrella Aguirre was an Ecuadorian doctor and researcher who published Flora Huayaquilensis: The Botanical Expedition of Juan Tafalla 1799-1808.
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Wilma Salgado
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Wilma Josefina Salgado Tamayo is an Ecuadorian politician and economist.
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Nathalie Cely
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Nathalie Cely Suárez is the former Minister of Production of Ecuador and former Ecuador Ambassador to the United States, in Washington, D.C.
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Wilfrido Lucero
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Wilfrido Lucero was an Ecuadorian politician who served as President of the National Congress.
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Juan Manuel Rodriguez
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- writer
- Biography
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Juan Manuel Rodríguez López is a Spanish-born, naturalized Ecuadorian author and professor. He holds a licenciate/BA degree in philosophy and a doctorate in literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). He was a professor at Universidad Central del Ecuador and Universidad Católica, as well as a founding professor of Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where he was Dean of the College of Communication and Contemporary Arts.
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José Valencia
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- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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José Valencia Amores is an Ecuadorian diplomat and lawyer, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador between 2019 and 2020, designated by president Lenín Moreno. Currently, he serves as representative of Ecuador to the World Trade Organization.
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Johana Pesántez
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- civil servant
- Biography
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Johana Farina Pesántez Benítez is an Ecuadorian politician, she was Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Religious Affairs between 13 May 2011 and 18 June 2013. Since 24 May 2017 she has been judicial advisor to President Lenín Moreno.
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Erika Sylva Charvet
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- civil servant
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Erika Sylva Charvet is an Ecuadorian politician who was Minister of Culture from 21 April 2010 until 9 May 2013.
