Alegría de Lourdes Crespo Cordovez is an Ecuadorian politician who became Minister of Education in 2024.
Life
Crespo was born in about 1975. When she was 22 her family were passengers in
a plane that crashed at Quito. The family members were going on a holiday to Cuba but the plane failed to take off and crashed at the airport. Her father died, but her mother and her siblings survived with injuries and burns. For months her family were in hospital and having surgery. After the tragedy, she became a nurse to her family, and a year later her twin sons were born. The tragedy shaped her life and she believes this made her engage with life.
She graduated from the
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (informally Universidad San Francisco, or simply USFQ) is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first li ...
in communication. She has a master's degree in education and she obtained her doctorate in Argentina in education at the
National University of Rosario
The National University of Rosario (, UNR) is a research public university located in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Overview
Rosario National University (UNR) was created in 1968 by Law 17.987. Its foundational struct ...
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and the Minister of the Interior,
Mónica Palencia, in May 2024
In 2024 she was a professor at
SEK International University looking after a master's course
[ and she had been a vice princopal at Quito's Johannes Kepler School since 2021. There was a referendum and presidential consultation in Ecuador in which 13m citizens gave their backing, or not, to changes in the country, on 21 April 2024. The day after the referendum, President Nobea replaced part of ]Mónica Palencia
Mónica Rosa Irene Palencia Núñez is a lawyer who was born in Mexico and she emigrated as an adult to Ecuador. She became the Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior and a citizen of Ecuador in 2023.
Life
Mónica Rosa Irene Palencia Núñez was b ...
's role with a replacement of Michel Sensi Contugi. Contugi became the Minister of Government and Palecia was the Minister of the Interior. The next day Nobea changed his Minister of Education. Crespo was appointed on 22 April 2024 to replace Daniel Calderón.
In February 2025 she signed agreements that required about 164,000 teachers to take part on a course titled "Sowing Values for a Future without Corruption". The purpose of the course is to improve the teaching of ethics and values to the nation's schoolchildren. She was working together with the Comptroller General of the State, Mauricio Torres, and the training would begin in weeks.
References
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Living people
Ecuadorian politicians
Education ministers of Ecuador
Women government ministers of Ecuador
Universidad San Francisco de Quito alumni
National University of Rosario alumni
21st-century Ecuadorian politicians
21st-century Ecuadorian women politicians