Honorary Academician
Social Sciences: Doctor of Jurisprudence
Date of admission: June 8, 2016
Admission speech: «Rethinking and Building the University in the 21st Century»
Reply speech: Hon. Dr. Joan-Francesc Pont Clemente, Doctor of Law
Former Constitutional President of Ecuador: Her leadership upheld education, democracy, and women’s rights as cornerstones of national development.
Dr. ROSALÍA ARTEAGA SERRANO
- Ecuadorian, the only woman to have served as both Constitutional President and Vice President of the Republic of Ecuador.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- Lawyer.
- Doctor in Jurisprudence.
- Graduate in Journalism.
- Master’s Degree in Anthropology.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Former Secretary-General of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization.
- Deputy Minister of Culture and Minister of Education of Ecuador.
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopædia Britannica (until 2007).
- Director of Fundación Natura Regional.
- Member of the Board of Directors of CATIE – Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center in Costa Rica (until 2012).
- Member of the World Academy of Art and Science.
- Member of the Board of the PanAmazonia Foundation of Manaus (Brazil).
- President of the Advisory Council of Fundación FIDAL.
- Executive President of A.S. Producciones.
- President of the Academic Council, Leadership School – Center for the Future (CFF).
- Member of the Administrative Council of the Library of Alexandria (Egypt).
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of essays, poetic prose, poetry, short stories, and children’s and young adult literature.
- Horas, Gente, Árboles de Cuenca, Cinco Poemas, Jerónimo, Los Otros Jerónimos, La Presidenta (El secuestro de una protesta), El Secreto de la Princesa, Hábitos Nocturnos y Lecturas Peligrosas, La princesa Martina y el Chip de los idiomas, Conjuros, Rosa Carmín.
- Her poems and stories appear in anthologies published in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Ecuador.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- “Benigno Malo” Award from the State University of Cuenca.
- Order of Montalvo – Ambato, Ecuador.
- Castillo Azul Decoration – Tarija, Bolivia.
- Order of Rio Branco, Grand Cross – Government of Brazil.
- Order of the Congress of Colombia, Extraordinary Cross Grade “Order of Democracy” – Bogotá, Colombia.
- Green Award of the Americas – Brazil.
- Order of Cartographic Merit, Grand Officer – Brazil.
- Honorary Professor at the University of Tarapoto – Peru.
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