María Alexandra Ocles Padilla (born 22 January 1979 in

Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...

) is an Ecuadorian politician and educator.

Biography

Alexandra Ocles was born in

on 22 January 1979. From 1989 to 1990, she studied at the

Manuela Cañizares Manuela Cañizares (1769-1814) was an Ecuadorian salonist and heroine of independence. Life Cañizares was the host of a popular literary salon in Quito from about 1797, which was a center of the city's intellectual life. On 9–10 August 1809, ...

College and then obtained a degree in educational sciences at

Politecnica Salesiana University The Politecnica Salesiana University in 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 a ...

and the

Latin American Social Sciences Institute The Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (, or FLACSO) is a graduate-only university and inter-governmental autonomous organization for Latin America dedicated to research, teaching and spreading of social sciences. Headquartered in Costa R ...

. Ocles was elected to the

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for the

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in 2003, then to the Constituent Assembly in 2007 for the movement. She was made head of the People's Secretariat by

Rafael Correa Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963) is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as the 45th president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Corr ...

and held this position until January 2011. At that time, Ruptura 25 announced its departure from the government, stating that the President had exceeded the expectations of his office. In opposition to the 2011 referendum, Ocles and other members of Ruptura 25 resigned from their positions. In May 2017, Ocles was named National Secretary of Risk Management by President

Lenín Moreno Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés (; born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador from 2017 to 2021. He was also vice president from 2007 to 2013, serving under President Rafael Correa. He was nominat ...

to work with his team during his four year term,

Citations

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