Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Ecuador Local Leaders

Also see Ecuador Ministers

Ca. 1984 Manager of the Provincial Council and Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Council Rosa Cecilia Prieto de Castro, Guayas Province
She was chairman of Radical Alfarist Front 1979-84

1986 Governor Rosalia Artenga of ?
Later she became minister, Vice-President and acting President

1988 Governor Juana Maria Vallejo Klaere de Navarro, Guajas Province
She was minister of Tourism 1997-98.

Ca. 1997 Deputy Mayor GLadys Calderon de Cordova, Quito

1999-before 2001 Governor Soledad Aguirre de Rengel, Loja

2000-05 Governor Nelly Salinas, Pastanza

2003-05 Governor Rosa Cabezas Ortiz, Esmeraldas

2003-05 Governor Alexandra Cedeño Martínez, Galápagos

2004-05 Governor Gloria Racines Peñaherrera, Cotopaxi

2004-05 Governor Virginia García Dueñas, Manabí

2005-07 Governor Silvia Barrosos, Pastaza

2005-07 Governor Lourdes Tibán, Cotopaxi
Indigenous leader. In 2003 she was Undersecretary of Rural Human Development. Secretary of the Council of Development of the Towns and Nationalities with the rank of Minister in 2005.

2005-07 Governor Marcela Costales, Chimborazo

2005-07 Governor Gladys Marisela Pazmiño Salazar, Napo
Vice-minister of Women's Affairs in 2003.

2005-07 Governor Grece Unda Romero, Galápagos

2005-06 Governor Nancy Lucia Armijos, Sucumbíos

2006-07 Governor Mireya González, Sucumbíos

2007- Governor María Pazmiño García, Bolívar

2007- Governor Elisa Margarita Monar Vargas, Orellana

2008 (March) Acting Governor Zobeida Gudiño Mena, Zamora Chinchipe
Former Police Intendent.

Last update 06.04.08