Alegría Crespo
Alegria Crespo | |
|---|---|
.jpg) in 2025 | |
| Born | c.1975 |
| Nationality | Ecuadorian |
| Education | Universidad San Francisco de Quito, National University of Rosario |
| Occupation(s) | Professor and politician |
| Known for | Minister of Education |
| Predecessor | Daniel Calderón |
| Successor | incumbent (2024) |
Alegria Crespo aka Alegría de Lourdes Crespo Cordovez became Ecuador's Minister of Education in 2024.
Life
[edit]Crespo was born in about 1975. When she was 22 her family were passengers in a plane that crashed at Quito. The family members were going on a holiday to Cuba but the plane failed to take off and crashed at the airport. Her father died, but her mother and her siblings survived with injuries and burns. For months her family were in hospital and having surgery. After the tragedy, she became a nurse to her family, and a year later her twin sons were born. The tragedy shaped her life and she believes this made her engage with life.[1]
She graduated from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Communication. She has a masters degree in education and she obtained her doctorate in Argentina in education at the National University of Rosario.[2]
In 2024 she was a Professor at SEK International University looking after a master's course[2] and she had been a vice princopal at Quito's Johannes Kepler School since 2021.[3] There was a referendum and presidential consultation in Ecuador in which 13m citizens gave their backing, or not, to changes in the country, on 21 April 2024.[4] The day after the referendum, President Nobea replaced part of Mónica Palencia's role with a replacement of Michel Sensi Contugi. Contugi became the Minister of Government and Palecia was the Minister of the Interior. The next day Nobea changed his Minister of Education. Crespo was appointed on 22 April 2024 to replace Daniel Calderón.[5]
On February 2025 she signed agreements that required about 164,000 teachers to take part on a course titled "Sowing Values for a Future without Corruption". The purpose of the course is to improve the teaching of ethics and values to the nation's schoolchildren. She wasworking together with the Comptroller General of the State, Mauricio Torres, and the training would begin in weeks.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Oñate, Sara; Trujillo, Sara Oñate, Yadira (2021-11-02). "Alegría Crespo: 'No es lo mismo vivir que honrar la vida'". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "¿Quién es Alegría Crespo, la nueva ministra de Educación?". Primicias. 2024-04-23. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
- ^ Miño, Emilia Paz y (2024-04-23). "¿Quién es Alegría Crespo, ministra de Educación de Noboa?". GK (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
- ^ GK (2024-04-21). "Resultados de la consulta popular 2024: SÍ gana en 9 preguntas, NO en 2". GK (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
- ^ S, Kevin Puga (2024-04-22). "Alegría Crespo, nueva ministra de Educación". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
- ^ Redacción (2025-02-05). "La Contraloría y el Ministerio de Educación firman convenio para capacitar a más de 160 000 profesores en valores y ética". www.ecuavisa.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-07.
 | This article needs additional or more specific categories. (February 2025) |