Magdalena Barreiro (born 1956 in Quito) is an Ecuadoran former Economy Minister[1] and professor of finance.
In this capacity, she supervised every aspect for company valuations in the privatization of the national telecommunications and electric sector.
She is currently the Dean of the Management School and Professor of Finance at Universidad San Francisco de Quito and serves as an independent consultant on Ecuador’s economic and political developments for GlobalSource Partners Inc, a network of independent advisors based in New York.
[2] She also holds a courtesy Professor position at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Barreiro is credited with bringing the country back to the international capital markets with its first new sovereign debt offering in almost a decade and re-establishing good working relationships with its creditors.