Sonia Roca

In 2020 Sonia Roca began Nuestro Oceano Pacifico (Our Pacific Ocean) a movement to encourage understanding with regards to the rights and obligations that Ecuadorian citizens have with the Pacific Ocean which consists of a Maritime Citizens Council as well as a think tank.

During the presidential elections of 2002 and 2006 she led the electoral campaign for presidential candidateLeon Roldos. In 2007 she was a candidate for the Constitutional Assembly. She was considered as a vice presidential candidate during the 2012 elections.

From 1978 to 1996 she was legal advisor to Academia Cotopaxi. In 1988 she became the representative of INCAE Instituto Centro Americano de Administración de Empresas for Ecuador. In 1992 she started the Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Cultura Empresarial (Foundation for the Development of Corporate Culture), which in turn led to the operation of Escuela de Negocios del Pacífico and after approval by the Ecuadorian Congress was enacted into law as Universidad del Pacífico: Escuela de Negocios

Roca began her career as a maritime attorney in the role of a civilian legal advisor to the Ecuadorian Merchant Marines 1972, and returned in 1977 to direct the creation of the Direction of Maritime Affairs for Ecuador. From 1973 to 1976 she headed the secretariat of the permanent council for the Organization of American States under Secretary General Galo Plaza Lasso. Where she was the Executive Secretaryl for the Interamerican Commission for Women and negotiated in the OAS General Assembly (Atlanta 1974) for the adoption of the International Women's Year 1975.