María Paula Romo Rodríguez

Maria Paula Romo Rodriguez, 41 years old. Ecuadorian, lawyer, Master in Government and Public Administration. University Professor, Former Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences of the International University of Ecuador. Forme Minister of Goverment.

Constituent assembly member in the Montecristi assembly in 2008. Then, between 2099 and 2023, she was a legislator in the National Assembly. Between 2013 and 2017 Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences at the International University. Undergraduate and postgraduate professor at Simón Bolívar and Espíritu Santo universities in the Andes.

International Consultant, researcher and lecturer on communication rights, penal reforms, prison system, rights of children and adolescents, democracy and political systems.

On August 31, 2018, the President of the Republic, Lenín Moreno, appointed her Minister of the Interior. On December 3, 2018, she was entrusted with the Secretariat of Politics and since August 2019, after a merger of these portfolios, she was appointed Minister of Government.