Monserrat Bustamante Chán

Currently, she handled her thesis as a PhD candidate in the field of teacher's training, at the University of Cadiz in Spain, with expected graduation date October 2018.

In February 2018, she embarked on a 10 province tour to promote the "yes" option at the Constitutional Referendum held on Ecuador, as her party's national spokeswoman, the only one of its kind.

She was registered in the National Electoral Council (CNE) on November 12 to participate in the elections of February 2017.

Monserratt Bustamante got into politics on November 10, 2016 when presidential candidate Paco Moncayo announced her name as his running mate by the alliance of Izquierda Democrática, Centro Democrático and Acuerdo Nacional por el Cambio.

Since April 2014, she has been the director of Institutional Planning and full-time professor of the Faculty of Marketing and Communication in ECOTEC University. As of August 2017, she currently is the Academic Controller at ECOTEC University

From October 2004 to May 2011, she was a professor on the International Business Management Career at the Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil (UCSG). Between October 2008 and August 2011 she was the curricular coordinator of the Academic Vice-Rectorate of this same center of higher studies. From May 2008 to March 2014, she taught in the career of Ingenieria de Empresas Formation Dual at the same university. She has also been a visiting Professor for the Postgraduate System in the Master's Degree in Higher Education, as well as conference translator.

Her professional career in teaching began at the age of 18. In 2002 she was a professor of English in the area of Literature and Sciences at the Unidad Educativa Santiago Mayor until 2016. In 2007, she also worked as the administrative coordinator at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil (UCSG). In 2009, she participated in a portfolio product design and a marketing plan called “Fibra de banana-Mujeres Trabajadoras Del Triunfo” of the Corporation for the Promotion of Exports and Imports (CORPEI).

Monserratt Bustamante Chán (born April 15, 1976) is an Ecuadorian professor and academic. In 2017 she ran as a candidate for Vice President of Ecuador alongside presidential candidate Paco Moncayo, in alliance with Izquierda Democrática, Centro Democrático Nacional and Acuerdo Nacional por el Cambio.

Monserrat Bustamante Chán was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 15, 1976. She is the daughter of Jorge Luis Bustamante Guevara and Monserrat Chán Ramírez (deceased), and is the elder of their two children. She also has another sister from her father’s next marriage.