Elias Santiago has 17 years of professional experience, he has a solid background in the public, private and academic sectors; he focuses his practice in the areas of constitutional law, economic criminal law, crimes against public administration, compliance/anti-corruption, civil-commercial litigation, and notarial law.
He has worked at the State Attorney General’s Office, Constitutional Court of Ecuador and has also collaborated with Non-Governmental Organizations such as Amnesty International Mexico, Transparencia Mexicana and the Corruption and Impunity Observatory of the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He was a full-time scholarship recipient from the National Council of Science and Technology to pursue his master’s and doctorate at the National Autonomous University of Mexico; he has training in issues of integrity, anti-corruption, compliance, governance, good corporate practices, human rights, constitutional law and criminal law.
He is the representative for Ecuador of the International Institute for Ethical Governance and Accountability; member of the National Anti-Corruption Commission of Azuay, Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce AMCHAM Cuenca and the Institute of Administrative and Social Law Studies IDEAS; alumni of Transparency International School of Integrity and IACA International Anti-Corruption Academy; he is a university professor and has participated as a speaker in several international seminars on topics related to anti-corruption and integrity.