Santiago Guarderas Izquierdo (born 1964) is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer. He is the

Metropolitan Mayor of Quito The Metropolitan Mayor of Quito ( es, Alcalde Metropolitano de Quito) is the head of the executive branch of the Metropolitan District of Quito, and is the highest-ranking official on the Council of the Metropolitan Municipal District of Quito ...

since 30 September 2021.

Early life

Born in 1964, he studied law at

Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) (English: ''Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador'') is a Pontifical Catholic university founded in 1946 in Quito, Ecuador. History The university opened in the fall of 1946, with Carlo ...

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 ...

. He worked on the faculty at the same institution.

Career

Guarderas was elected to the National Congress in January 2007 as a member of the Social Christian Party. He left office when the assembly was dissolved in November 2007. He unsuccessfully ran for the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

in 2017. In 2019, he became Vice Mayor of

alongside Jorge Yunda as Mayor. In July 2021, he assumed the role of mayor when there was a leadership dispute with Yunda during protests. On 30 September 2021, Guarderas succeeded Yunda as Quito's mayor.Corte Constitucional falla en contra de Jorge Yunda y lo deja sin la Alcaldía

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Living people 1964 births 21st-century Ecuadorian politicians Mayors of Quito {{Ecuador-politician-stub