Cecilia Ansaldo Briones (born 1949) is an Ecuadorian professor, essayist, and literary critic.
[1] She completed her secondary studies at the Dolores Baquerizo school, and higher education at the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, where she obtained a licentiate in educational sciences.
She was also dean of the Universidad Católica's faculty of philosophy and letters and rector of the German School.
[1] In 2015 she became a member of the Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua[3] a correspondent organization of the Royal Spanish Academy.
She has chaired the Guayaquil International Book Fair [es]'s content committee since 2015.