Wendy Chávez-Páez
Department
Environmental Governance
Function
Associate Researcher
Specialization
Cultural and Political Change
Work areas
- Political ecology
- Corruption, clientelism, and illegal institutional arrangements
- Socio-ecological conflicts & knowledge mobility
- Mangrove governance & Small-scale fisheries
- Community justice
- Economics
- Public administration
- Human settlements
Regional expertise
- Latin America
Vita
| since 12/2025 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Associate Researcher, Research department "Environmental Governance" |
| since 2021 | Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn Junior Researcher of Cultural and Political Change (BIGS-DR Program) |
| 2020–2021 | Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), United Nations Consultant – Urban Economic Resilience (Guayaquil) |
| 2019–2020 | Schutzwald e.V. (Germany–Ecuador) Academic Coordinator (voluntary) – Academic exchange program |
| 2019 | Mott Foundation International Consultant for Latin America – Ecuador Chapter |
| 2019 | University of Maine (USA) Research and Teaching Assistant – Project: Economic Networks and the Dynamics Of Wealth (ENDOW) |
| 2017–2018 | KU Leuven, Belgium Master of Human Settlements (Scholarship: ICP & VLIR-UOS) |
| 2015 | Municipality of General Antonio Elizalde (Bucay, Ecuador) Strategies Coordinator |
| 2013–2015 | Andean Parliament – (Quito) Advisor and Chief of Staff – Human Mobility Legislation |
| 2010–2012 | Development Bank of Ecuador (BDE) National Director of Follow-up (Institutional Strengthening) |
| 2007–2009 | Municipality of Guayaquil Chief of Training |
| 2007 | Georgetown University, Washington DC Certificate – Global Competitiveness & Leadership Program |
| 2007 | UEES – Esquel Foundation – Civic Commission for Corruption Control (Ecuador) Diploma – Studies for Preventing and Combatting Corruption |
| 2002–2004 | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY (USA) Master of Public Administration |
| 1998–2019 (various years) | Universidad de Guayaquil; Universidad Casa Grande; ESPOL; UEES; Technical University Federico Santa María; Universidad del Pacífico; Instituto Tecnológico PARADOX; John Jay College (USA); ICHE-ESPOL Lecturer – Economics, Urban Sociology, Research Methods, Critical Thinking, Governing Planning |
| 1997–2001 | Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador Economist – Public Management |
Member of
- Observatory of Public Policy of Guayaquil, Ecuador (founding member since 2017)
- NGO Fundación Cerro Verde, Guayaquil, Ecuador (since 2018)
- Association for Applied Research and Alternatives to Development Network (RIAAD) (founding member since 2022)