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Intellectual Property

Senior Associate

Elias Santiago has 17 years of professional experience, he has a solid background in the public, private and academic sectors; he focuses his practice in the areas of constitutional law, economic criminal law, crimes against public administration, compliance/anti-corruption, civil-commercial litigation, and notarial law.

He has worked at the State Attorney General’s Office, Constitutional Court of Ecuador and has also collaborated with Non-Governmental Organizations such as Amnesty International Mexico, Transparencia Mexicana and the Corruption and Impunity Observatory of the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He was a full-time scholarship recipient from the National Council of Science and Technology to pursue his master’s and doctorate at the National Autonomous University of Mexico; he has training in issues of integrity, anti-corruption, compliance, governance, good corporate practices, human rights, constitutional law and criminal law.

He is the representative for Ecuador of the International Institute for Ethical Governance and Accountability; member of the National Anti-Corruption Commission of Azuay, Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce AMCHAM Cuenca and the Institute of Administrative and Social Law Studies IDEAS; alumni of Transparency International School of Integrity and IACA International Anti-Corruption Academy; he is a university professor and has participated as a speaker in several international seminars on topics related to anti-corruption and integrity.

Spanish and English

Attorney at Law by the Republic of Ecuador’s Court, Universidad de Cuenca, 2007. Specialist in Criminal Law, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador headquarters, 2009. Specialist in Constitutional Right, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador headquarters, 2011. Master in Criminal Law, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador headquarters, 2013. Certified in the Program in Advanced Studies in Human Rights, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington USA, 2014. Governance and Political Leadership Program, Corporación Líderes para Gobernar, IDE Business School, 2014. Master in Law, Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, 2017.

Doctorate in Law, Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, 2018 – 2022.

Transparency International School on Integrity, Vilnus Lithuania 2019 IACA Internacional Anti-Corruption Academy Summer School, august 2020 V Diploma in Anti-Corrupction International Chamber of Commercer, Mexico, April 2021. Diploma in Compliance and Good Corporate Practices, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, June 2021.