Valentina Centeno | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
Assumed office 17 November 2023 | |
Constituency | National list |
Personal details | |
Born | Portoviejo, Ecuador[1] | 14 February 1997
Political party | Independent |
Other political affiliations | National Democratic Action |
Alma mater | Universidad San Francisco de Quito |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Valentina Centeno Arteaga (born 14 February 1997) is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician who was elected to Ecuador's National Assembly in 2023.
Valentina Centeno comes from Portoviejo in Manabí Province.[2][3]
She played beach volleyball and became national champion in 2014.[4][5] She represented her country at the 2017 Bolivarian Games.[6][2]
She studied law at San Francisco University of Quito then became a teaching assistant in private international law and corporate law.[5]
Valentina Centeno started working for the ministry of sports as local coordinator in May 2021 then as under secretary in November 2021.[7]
On 20 August 2023, she was elected as a member of parliament of the National Assembly for the fourth legislative period at the 2023 Ecuadorian general election.[8] She is affiliated with National Democratic Action and she is the group's leader in the National Assembly.[5][3] As such, she led a coalition to support the government of the Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa.[9] She is the president of the permanent commission for Economic, Productive and Microenterprise Development.[4][10]