Public Seminar Series: The 2025 Ecuadorian Elections - Assessing the first-round results

This panel of experts on Ecuador will help make sense of the results of the first round of the 2025 elections, which will see incumbent Daniel Noboa seek re-election.

Speakers:

Andrea Espinoza Carvajal is an LSE Fellow in Human Rights, Politics and Gender. Her research focuses on women's rights in Latin America. She is interested in how women react, adapt, and/or normalise behaviours to survive, endure or disrupt hierarchical and subordinative power structures. Andrea holds an MSc in Latin American Development and a PhD in Gender and Development (King's College London). 

Geoff Goodwin is a Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Leeds, UK. He previously taught at the London School of Economics, University of Oxford and University College London, and was a Research Associate at FLACSO-Quito. His research focuses on land, water, infrastructure, and socioecological transformation in Ecuador, Colombia, and England. His latest article is 'Dilemmas for the Ecuadorian Left in the Shadow of Correa', Radical Americas (9) 1 2024. 

Pablo Valdivieso Kastner is a PhD candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on judicial politics, legislative politics and comparative constitutionalism using quantitative methodology and machine learning. His current interests focus on the study of the causes and consequences of non-compliance with decisions of the High Courts in Latin America. His work has appeared in journals such as Electoral Studies, Political Research Quarterly, International Journal of Constitutional Law.

Chaired by Paulo Drinot