Preceded by Alfredo Corral Spouse(s) Gracia Abad | Name Andres Mantilla Role Politician | |
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Born 16 May 1976 (age 47)
Guayaquil, Ecuador ( 1976-05-16 ) | ||
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Andrés Ycaza Mantilla (May 16, 1976 in Guayaquil, Ecuador), is an Ecuadorian politician, lawyer, professor, and a specialist in international trade negotiations.
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Biography
Andrés Ycaza Mantilla graduated from the College International School in 1995, then entered the Catholic University of Guayaquil to study law.
Between 1997 and 2001 he worked at various law firms in Ecuador. In 2002 he was advisor to the Executive Director of the Transit Commission of Guayas and in 2003 he served as CEO of the pharmaceutical industry for Ecuador in Andean Community negotiations on approval of Health Records standards on medicines.
Mantilla has served as a professor at the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil in the Faculty of Business.
He has represented the pharmaceutical industry in the tables of the Business Committee Intellectual Property Ecuadorian rounds of negotiations on FTA with the United States. In 2007 he served as Regional Undersecretary of the Ministry of Industry and Productivity, has designed and implemented processes of decentralization of the functions of the Regional Secretariat for Development and Micro enterprises for the eradication of child begging.
He has held several offices, including the executive director of the Association of Pharmaceutical Laboratories in 2007 and 2008, the executive director of the National Federation of Chambers of Small Industry between the years 200 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2007, executive management of the Ecuadorian Association of Pharmaceutical Laboratories from 2002 to 2007, the executive director of the Chamber of Small Industrial Nairobi from 2002 to 2009.
By a 2009 decree of the President of the Republic of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, Mantilla has been president of the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property.