Dr. Luis Cabezas Parrales (Director)

In 1971, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil bestowed student Luis Cabezas Parrales the University Award in recognition of his attaining the highest grades in two continuous scholar periods and, accordingly, the highest-grade average    of the entire university. From 1973 to 2008 Dr. Cabezas Parrales practiced Corporate Law in Universidad Católica, which appointed him as Honorary Professor in 2011. He serves as an attorney at the Ecuadorian Academy of Corporate Law, and arbitrator of the Chamber of Commerce of Guayaquil. He served as Municipal Pro-Secretary for the City of Guayaquil; Intendant of Companies of Guayaquil twice, in 1984 and in 1997; Secretary-Executive Director de la of the Chamber of Insurance Companies of Ecuador; Legal Director of the Under Secretariat of Fishing Resources and the Stock Market of Guayaquil; member of the Editorial Board and columnist of El Telégrafo journal (1987-2002); Dean of the School of Law of Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil; Deputy Judge of the Second District Court of the National Police; Director of Corporación Financiera Nacional; and member of the Bank Board (2003-2007.) He founded the School of Law, Politics, and Development of Universidad Espíritu Santo (1996) and the Employee Association of Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil. He writes for the Corporate Law Magazine and for the Juridical Magazine of Universidad Católica.