Juan Pablo Isidoro Guanipa Villalobos (born 20 December 1964) is a Venezuelan lawyer and politician who served as deputy and First Vice President of the National Assembly, leader of the Justice First political party and former governor of Zulia.

[7][8] In 1991, he completed the IV International Senior Management Course offered by the Latin American Institute for Social Research in Caracas.

[7][8] In 2002, he completed the Master in Applied Political Studies offered by the International Foundation for Ibero-America of Administration and Public Policies in Madrid, Spain, obtaining with cum laude honors.

In 2015, he was elected deputy to the Venezuelan National Assembly until the end of 2017 when he separated from office to run as governor, where he was elected, however, unable to assuming his mandate before the refusal of the Zulia State Legislative Council (CLEZ) of an official majority to swear him in because he did not subordinate himself to the ANC (by the same request of this instance that was called and installed controversially), he returns to his seat in the national parliament in 2018.

[13] Guanipa was a candidate for governor of his state, a place that got winning the primary election of officers of the Unit, facing the mayor of Maracaibo, Eveling Trejo de Rosales on 10 September 2017.

"[16] On 26 January 2018, his brother and secretary general of Primero Justicia, Tomás Guanipa, communicated the possibility that Juan Pablo Guanipa was the party's presidential candidate – despite the fact that he could nominate Henrique Capriles Radonski for the third time in future elections of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) primaries.

[19] After being blocked from entering the Palacio Federal Legislativo on 5 January 2020, Juan Guaidó announced that a separate session of the National Assembly would happen in the building of El Nacional, a Venezuelan newspaper.