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Daniel Noboa
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Noboa in 2022
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| President-elect of Ecuador | |
| Assuming office 25 November 2023 |
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| Vice President | Verónica Abad Rojas (elect) |
| Succeeding | Guillermo Lasso |
| Member of the National Assembly from Santa Elena |
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| In office 14 May 2021 – 17 May 2023 |
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Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin
30 November 1987 Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| Political party | National Democratic Action (2022–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
United Ecuadorian (before 2022) |
| Spouses |
Gabriela Goldbaum
(m. 2018; div. 2021)Lavinia Valbonesi
(m. 2021) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Álvaro Noboa Anabella Azín |
| Education | New York University (BBA) Northwestern University (MBA) Harvard University (MPA) George Washington University (MA) |
Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin (born 30 November 1987) is an Ecuadorian business administrator, politician and businessman in the banana industry, who is the President-elect of Ecuador after winning the 2023 general election. At 35 years old, he will be the youngest president in Ecuadorian history.
Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly of Ecuador, between 2021 and 2023, when the National Assembly was dissolved following the muerte cruzada mechanism invoked by President Guillermo Lasso. Prior to his political career, Noboa served in several positions at Noboa Corporation, an exporting business founded by his father Álvaro Noboa, who unsucessfully ran for president of Ecuador five times. He has been widely described as an heir to his father's company and fortune.
In May 2023, Noboa announced his candidacy for president in the 2023 snap election running under the National Democratic Action ticket. He advanced to the run-off election in October, facing Luisa Gonzalez, in which many saw as an upset given his low polling numbers in the days leading up to the election.
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Early life and education
Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin was born on November 30, 1987, in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. He is the son of businessman Álvaro Noboa, and of doctor Anabella Azin.
After studying at the New York University Stern School of Business, he obtained a degree in Business Administration in 2010.
In 2019, Noboa earned a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. In 2020, another master's degree in Public Administration at Harvard University. Subsequently, in 2022, he obtained another master's degree in Political Communication and Strategic Governance from George Washington University.
Career
Business activities
At the age of 18, he founded his own company, DNA Entertainment Group, dedicated to organizing events.
His father Álvaro Noboa's Noboa Corporation business is an exporter of bananas. He is seen as an heir to the company. He has served as Shipping Director of Noboa Corporation. He was also commercial and logistics director, between 2010 until June 2018.
Politics
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Noboa was elected to the National Assembly in the 2021 legislative elections, representing Santa Elena, for the United Ecuadorian political movement. He was inaugurated on May 14 of the same year. In that same May, he became president of the Commission for Economic, Productive and Microenterprise Development. His political ideology has been described as both centrist and centre-right.
In March 2023, he was in favour of the muerte cruzada, in the face of the rejection and filing of the Investment Law, presented by the government of Guillermo Lasso. On 17 May 2023, Lasso invoked muerte cruzada, dissolving the National Assembly and ending Noboa's tenure as an assemblyman.
2023 presidential campaign
Subsequently, in May 2023, and with the dissolution of parliament amid the political crisis, he presented himself as a pre-candidate for the presidential elections of the same year, by the political movement National Democratic Action (ADN), and also supported by the movements: People, Equality and Democracy (PID), and MOVER. His running mate is businesswoman Verónica Abad Rojas. His campaign has focused on job creation, tax incentives for newly established businesses and increase criminal sentences for tax evaders. He has also pledged to improve the justice system in the country amid the growing violence.
In two July polls, he was polling at 6.4% and at 3.1%. In early August, Noboa was polling at 2.5% and 3.7%. In a poll conducted a week before the election, Noboa was polling at 3.3%.
On 20 August, Noboa gathered 23.47% of the actual votes and advanced to the run-off election set for 15 October, facing Luisa Gonzalez. His second place finish was seen as surprising, with some attributing his debate performance to his rise in popularity. Noboa credited the young voter base for his victory. Elected and sworn in at 35, he will be the youngest president in Ecuadorian history (and the second youngest head of state in the world), younger than Jaime Roldós Aguilera when he took the presidency at 38 years old in 1979. He will be sworn in five days before his 36th birthday.
Personal life
On January 13, 2018, he married Gabriela Goldbaum, with whom he had a daughter. They later divorced. In June 2021, a complaint filed by Noboa was admitted to a Spanish court, to investigate the insurer Mapfre for the alleged crime of violation of the right to privacy and disclosure of secrets, for data used by Goldbaum during the divorce process.
In 2019 he met the social media influencer Lavinia Valbonesi, whom he married on 28 August 2021. They have one son.
Companies in tax havens
The Brazilian daily Folha de S.Paulo revealed in October 2023 that Daniel Noboa is the owner, according to the Pandora Papers, of two offshore companies located in Panama. He is also linked to several other companies owned by his father in tax havens. Ecuadorian law prohibits election candidates from owning assets in tax havens.
See also
In Spanish: Daniel Noboa para niños
