ANGEL ENRIQUE ARIAS BARRIGA (RESUME, updated to January 21, 2014) Place and Date of birth: Quito, Ecuador, November 8, 1949 Education: College and graduate Degree : Economist STUDIES: Elementary: Eloy Alfaro School No.1 School: Colegio Nacional Montufar and Colegio Luis Napoleon Dillon University: Central University of Ecuador, School of Economics, School of Economics (graduate) Simon Bolivar Andean University, Master of International Relations (completed, thesis in preparation) WORK POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES DEVELOPED: • Founder of PUDELECO EDITORES S.A. a company specialized in Economic Legislation (1979) • Author of ARANCEL DE ADUANAS DEL ECUADOR INTEGRADO (1979) • Author of MANUAL DE IMPORTACIONES Y EXPORTACIONES del Ecuador (1981) • Assistant and P r o f e s s o r at the School of Economics at the Central University (19811984) • Investigator at the Central University of Ecuador, F a c u l t y P r o j e c t s CONESUP (1988-1989) • Founder and director of the Foreign Trade magazine AD- V ALOREM (1991) • Professor at Escuela Superior de la Industria Básica, La Habana, Cuba (1992) • Co-founder and p r i n c i p a l TRAMASOCIAL (1994) Editor of Economics of the Economic and Political Editorial • Co- author of customs management programs and Foreign Trade ADUANET (1995) • Instructor at the Political Capacitation Institute "Manuel Córdova Galarza" (1998-2002) • Post- Degree Professor "Economía y Negocios Internacionales" f r o m t h e E c o n o m i c s S c h o o l s a t Universidad Estatal de Guayaquil. (2002-2003) 1 • Founder and General Editor of the TENDENCIA (2004) ideology and political magazine LA • Facilitator and exponent at various seminars organized by ILDIS-FES (2004-2006) • Collaborator in some investigations and editorial projects at the Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales ILDIS (2004-2006) • Author de Various articles about Citizenship, Laicism and Post-modernity a n d autor of the paper CRISIS ECONÓMICA MUNDIAL Y PELIGROS PARA LA INTEGRACIÓN presentado en el PRIMER CONGRESO DE ECONOMÍA y FINANZAS ORGANIZADO POR LA ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL. (2009) • Director of Studies of the Editorial PUDELECO EDITORES S.A (since 1979) • Coordinador (Director) of the STRATEGIC ANALYSIS at Secretaría Nacional de Inteligencia del Ecuador (SENAIN) October 2009 till December 20l 0 • Director of the Foreign Trade magazine PLUSVALOR since Jan 2011 until May 2012 • Advisor to the Undersecretary for International Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Integration of Ecuador, from June 2012 to November 2012 • Advisor to the Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration (Directorate of Integration) from December 2012 to February 2013. • Secretary of the Under-secretariat of Asia, Africa and Oceania from the February 28, 2013. Work performed from November 2009 to December 2010 at the National Secretariat of Intelligence SENAIN • FIRST DRAFT OF NATIONAL SAFETY INTEGRAL PLAN (commissioned by the Coordinating Minister for Internal and External Security). Agency team. April 2010 • THREATS, OPPORTUNITIES and RISKS OF ECUADOR´S ECONOMY (consultation). Preparation of Terms of Reference and Study Management. May 2010 • STATUS OF ECUADOR IN REGIONAL geopolitical environment: THREATS and OPPORTUNITIES (consulting). Developing terms of reference and study management. POLITICAL ECUADORIAN SYSTEM June 2010, 2 VULNERABILITIES, RISK FACTORS, THREATS, ACTORS, SCENARIOS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (consulting). Developing terms of reference and study management. July 2010 • LATIN AMERICA and ASIA: A VIEW FROM SECURITY (consulting). Developing terms of reference and study management. July 2010 • LATIN AMERICA and UNITED STATES (consulting). Developing terms of reference and study management. August 2010 • LATIN AMERICAN REGIONAL CONTEXT (consulting). Developing terms of reference and study management. August 2010 • RELATIONS BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR (consulting) Developing terms of reference and study management. September 2010. • STUDY ON NORTHERN BORDER SECURITY. Interagency team of SENAIN. • POLITICAL STUDY OF COLOMBIA (Elections 2010). Analysis SENAIN equipment. October 2010 • STATUS OF ECUADOR FRONT FATF and FATF (Study about Ecuador had been included in the list of Non-Cooperative Countries) October 2010 • ANALYSIS OF THE FACTS AND IMPACT 30-S (Police Insubordination) October 2010 • Organization of training for analysts SENAIN (3). • Organization INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE AND PROSPECTS (with FLACSO). September 2010 • Work in the Secretariat of International Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Integration of Ecuador since June 2012. • Development of Terms of Reference and coordinating agency study "International Financial Crisis and recommendations to address it from Latin America and the Caribbean." 3 • Coordination of the study "Risks and Opportunities for Ecuador to enter Mercosur" 4