María Alexandra Ocles Padilla (born 22 January 1979 in

Quito Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley o ...

) is an Ecuadorian politician and educator.

Biography

Alexandra Ocles was born in

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

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College and then obtained a degree in educational sciences at Politecnica Salesiana University and the

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. 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), known as Rafael Correa, is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation ...

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

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to work with his team during his four year term,

Citations

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