Maria Roberta Zambrano Ortiz (born 14 December 1971) is an

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

ian politician. She was a member of the

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before becoming the President of the Consortium of Provincial and Municipal Autonomous Governments of Northern Ecuador.

Life

Zambrano was born in

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in 1971. She was the daughter of Ramón Zambrano and Olivia Ortiz, but she became an orphan at the age of two and she came under the care of her grandmother. She obtained her bachelor's degree in accounting from the Colegio Particular 9 de Octubre educational center. She obtained a law degree from the . She completed her master's degree at the Simón Bolívar Andean University in Ambato, and she completed a diploma in Criminal Law and Indigenous Justice. In 1996 she was appointed as provincial director for the Institute for Children and the Family. Zambrano ran for Mayor of Esmeraldas for the Ecuadorian Roldosista Party in 2009 and she came second with just 511 votes behind the elected mayor. In 2017 she ran under the Social Christian Party's banner and she was elected to the

for the province. Later in 2019, during the sectional elections, she ran for the Prefecture of Esmeraldas, renouncing her seat in the assembly. In 2020, she assumed the presidency of the Consortium of Provincial and Municipal Autonomous Governments of Northern Ecuador, being the first woman to hold the position.

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