María Gabriela Moncayo, new LLYC Senior Director of Public Affairs in Ecuador

LLYC, a global Corporate Affairs and Marketing firm, announces the appointment of María Gabriela Moncayo as the new Senior Director of Public Affairs in its Ecuador operation. With this appointment, the firm accelerates its commitment to provide its clients with an integrated Corporate Affairs offering in the areas of public advocacy, political intelligence and corporate diplomacy, combining María Gabriela’s extensive local experience and that of the LLYC team in Ecuador, with the company’s global capabilities in creativity, influence and innovation.

María Gabriela Moncayo has more than 15 years of experience in leadership roles in government affairs, public policy, advocacy, institutional relations and communications in major multinational companies with a presence in Ecuador. She is a lawyer from SEK University and holds a Master’s degree in International Politics from the University of Paris, Belgium. Before joining LLYC, she worked as Pfizer’s Policy and Public Affairs Manager for the Andean Region (Chile, Ecuador and Peru), where she led the negotiation for the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines in Ecuador and Peru.

Moncayo’s motivation for joining LLYC’s management team in Ecuador is to contribute to an increasingly constructive public-private dialogue, leading to optimal public policies and a better business climate in the country. To this end, he will bring his understanding of the political context and the regulatory environment, as well as his experience in the institutional and trade union environment, such as his participation in the board of directors of the Ecuadorian-American Chamber-AMCHAM in the period 2022-2024.

“We are going through a period in which restoring trust to promote real progress requires the full commitment of professionals who seek to enable the sustainability of business, encouraging that the directionality of their activity, their contribution and their impact respond to the real needs of society, and also considering the necessary co-responsibility and collaboration between companies and public administrations. We are convinced that María Gabriela Moncayo is the professional who, from LLYC, will be able to promote the correct interpretation of the current situation in Ecuador and, consequently, an assertive approach to this reality in order to overcome the present and future challenges of companies and institutions in the country”, said María Esteve, Partner and General Director of Corporate Affairs for Latin America at LLYC.

“What motivates us most at LLYC is to help our clients build trust to foster better societies. María Gabriela Moncayo has spent her entire professional life in this same effort, participating from the private sector in the design and implementation of public policies as relevant for Ecuador as, for example, the vaccination against COVID-19. We are happy to add this experience to our management team to continue working for Ecuador and its companies”, added Gonzalo Carranza, Partner and Managing Director of LLYC in Ecuador.

According to María Gabriela Moncayo, new Senior Director of Public Affairs at LLYC in Ecuador: “I am very excited to join LLYC in this new stage of my professional career. I hope to bring to the firm’s clients my experience of more than 15 years in multinationals, managing public influence and institutional relations in highly demanding and sophisticated environments. In this sense, I think it is a great opportunity for our clients in Ecuador to take advantage of the creative and technological capacity that LLYC has to support the initiatives that we work on from Public Affairs”.

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