Valentina Centeno Arteaga (born 14 February 1997) is an

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

ian lawyer and politician who was elected to Ecuador's National Assembly in 2023.

Life

Early life and education

Valentina Centeno comes from

Portoviejo Portoviejo (), also known as San Gregorio de Portoviejo, is a city in Ecuador, and the capital of the Province of Manabí from the Pacific coast. It is still known as the city of the "Royal Tamarind Trees" due to former Tamarind plantains in the ...

Manabí Province Manabí () is a province in Ecuador. Its capital is Portoviejo. The province is named after the Manabí people. Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: *Mestizo 66.7% * Montubio 19.2% * Afro-Ecuadorian 6.0% *White 7 ...

. She played

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

and became national champion in 2014. She represented her country at the

2017 Bolivarian Games The 2017 Bolivarian Games, officially the XVIII Bolivarian Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 11–25 November 2017, in Santa Marta, Colombia. Host city selection Ciudad Bolivar (Venezuela) and Santa Marta (Colom ...

. She studied law at San Francisco University of Quito then became a teaching assistant in

private international law Conflict of laws (also called private international law) is the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrence that has connections to more than one jurisdiction. This body of law deals with three broad t ...

and corporate law.

Political career

left, President of the permanent commission for Economic, Productive and Microenterprise Development in 2024 Valentina Centeno started working for the ministry of sports as local coordinator in May 2021 then as under secretary in November 2021. On 20 August 2023, she was elected as a member of parliament of 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 ...

for the fourth legislative period at the

2023 Ecuadorian general election Snap election, Snap general elections were held in Ecuador on 20 August 2023 to vote for President of Ecuador, members of the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly and two referendums. Elections followed the invocation of , which 2023 E ...

. She is affiliated with

National Democratic Action The National Democratic Labour Action Society – Wa'ad ( ar, جمعية العمل الوطني الديمقراطي – وعد) is Bahrain's largest leftist political party. History and profile It emerged from the Popular Front, a "radical" ...

and she is the group's leader in the National Assembly. As such, she led a coalition to support the government of the Ecuadorian president

Daniel Noboa Daniel Roy Gilchrist Noboa Azín ( ; ; born 30 November 1987) is an Ecuadorian politician and businessman currently serving as the 48th president of Ecuador since 23 November 2023. Taking office at the age of 35, he is the second-youngest presid ...

. She is the president of the permanent commission for Economic, Productive and Microenterprise Development.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Centeno, Valentina 21st-century Ecuadorian women politicians Women members of the National Assembly (Ecuador) Living people 1997 births Members of the fourth National Assembly (Ecuador) Women's beach volleyball players 21st-century Ecuadorian politicians People from Portoviejo