Patricio Alberto Chávez Závala is an Ecuadorian mechanical engineer, who was as political appointee from 11 December 2007 to May 28, 2015 Ambassador of Ecuador to Russia.

[1] He received his primary education at the Eugenio Espejo school, continued at Sebastián de Betancurt College.

In 1986, he went to the USSR to study at the Faculty of Car Repair at the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute (MADI) (now MADGTU).

In 1990, after successful completion and obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering, he continued his studies in the magistracy of this faculty.

During the same period, he studied at the Faculty of Law of Private Technical University of Loja, Quito, Ecuador, and also served as Assistant Professor at the Department of Company Management, University of San Francisco in Quito, currently undergoing postgraduate studies at the Latin Institute Merica Russian Academy of Sciences Department of Political Science.