Ecuador

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 22 January 1947

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Presidente de la República: Excmo. Sr Don Rafael CORREA

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

Mr Marcelo Vazquez
Minister Plenipotentiary, Chargé d'Affaires a. i.

Permanent Delegation of Ecuador to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M5.23 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.33.03
Fax: 01.43.06.49.06
E-mail: dl.ecuador@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Presidente: Sr Raúl Vallejo Corral*
Secretaria Permanente: Sra. Patricia Ashton

Comisión Nacional Ecuatoriana de Cooperación con la UNESCO
Ministerio de Educación Av. Amazonas N° N34-45 y Juan Pablo Sanz Quito Ecuador
Telephone: (593.2) 398 13 18
Fax: (593.2) 398 13 19
E-mail: cnimec@yahoo.com; sucashton@hotmail.com (SG)

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Benjamin Carrion	1947-1948	5-12
Member	Mr Jose Martinez Cobo	1954-1962	40-63
Member	Mr Gonzalo Abad Grijalva	1976-1980	101-110
Representative		2003-2007	168-177

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• Intergovernmental Council of the "Management of Social Transformations" Programme
  Vice-President

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport
  Vice-President : Raoul Carrion Fiallos

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  President : Mr Raúl Vallejo Corral (Term expires : 2010)

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Celebration of anniversaries

Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Antonio J. Quevedo (8 April 2000)

100th anniversary of the birth of Jorge Icaza, writer (1906-1978) (2006)

100th anniversary of the birth of Monseñor Leonidas Proaño (1910-1988) (2010)