Alfredo Borrero Vega

Alfredo Borrero Vega is 65 years old. Forty years of his life have been dedicated to medicine: involvement in health administration and in medical and educational institutions. Borrero studied Neurosurgery at the Mexican Institute of Social Security and has a sub-specialization in Spinal Surgery at the Ochsner Clinic-Health System in New Orleans, EEUU. In addition, he has a Diploma in Health Administration from Harvard University in Boston. Also, he was resident physician at the Vozandes Hospital in Quito, and head of the Neurosurgery department at the Metropolitan Hospital in Quito and at Ecuador’s Society for the Fight Against Cancer (SOLCA). As part of his experience, he founded the Health Sciences Faculty in the University of the Americas (UDLA), of which he was dean, and created the Master in Management of Health Institutions for the UDLA Business School. He participated in the board of directors of “Salvar Vidas” initiative, led by the current president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso. This project managed the donation of USD 12 million in equipment, medicines and supplies for hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aid was distributed in different places of Ecuador. On May 24, 2021, Alfredo Borrero Vega was installed by the National Assembly as Constitutional Vice president of the Republic of Ecuador. His work is focused on transforming Ecuador’s health system, employment generation, entrepreneurship support and the country’s post-pandemic productive reactivation. Alfredo Borrero Vega is the 52nd Vice President of Ecuador.