Nathalie Cely

Since January 18, 2012, Nathalie Cely has served as the Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States. From May 2009 until November 2011, she was Coordinating Minister of Production, Employment and Competitiveness, and from March 2007 to April 2009, she served as Ecuador’s Coordinating Minister of Social Development. An economist, Ambassador Cely served in the private sector from 2002 to 2007. She was president of Edúcate, a foundation that works to better the quality of education through the measuring and personalization of learning by using information and communication technology. Ambassador Cely is a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.