María Lourdes Pía Luisa Alcorta Suero (born June 21, 1951, in

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...

) is a

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vian author, social communicator,

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politician and a former

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representing Lima from 2006 to 2019.

Early life

She graduated from Colegio Sagrado Corazón Sophianum school, in San Isidro, and studied

advertising Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to put a product or service in the spotlight in hopes of drawing it attention from consumers. It is typically used to promote a ...

and

marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ( es, link=no, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic Church, being the oldest private ...

. Alcorta worked in the private sector until 2003: she started as a television producer, then became

accountancy Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "langua ...

director for the advertising agencies "Peruana de Publicidad" and "Forum"; she would later form her own agency, "Alma Publicidad". Also, she worked as a public speaker in advertising and marketing seminars, and has recently participated in governance, national security, and death penalty for child rapists seminars.

Political career

In 2013, she resigned from the Christian People's Party and from the

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, and joined the Regional Union group, and is elected councillor of Lima's San Isidro District. In 2006, she is elected to Congress for the 2006–2011 term on the

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list. In the 2011 election, she is re-elected for another five-year term on the ticket of the

, to which the Christian democrats now belong. In the 2016 election, she was re-elected for another five-year term this time on the

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and left office in 2019 following to the dissolution of the Congress.

References

External links

Lourdes Alcorta's personal siteResume on the National Electoral Committee (JNE) site
Living people Peruvian people of Spanish descent Christian People's Party (Peru) politicians Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru 1951 births 21st-century Peruvian women politicians 21st-century Peruvian politicians Fujimorista politicians National Unity (Peru) politicians Women members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru {{Peru-politician-stub