Pamela Aguirre is the director of Universidad Espíritu Santo (UEES) Legal and Social Observatory, a professor in the master’s programs at the Law School of Postgraduate Studies, and the director of the JUEES Legal Journal.
In her professional career, she has served as a judicial procurator for the SRI, an advisor to the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, and the coordinator of technical groups for the admission, selection, review, and substantiation processes during Ecuador’s transitional period. Additionally, she was the jurisdictional technical secretary for Ecuador’s first Constitutional Court and a professional visitor at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She has also contributed as an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of González Lluy vs. Ecuador and worked as a lawyer at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Aguirre has been invited to lecture at national and international universities. She earned her PhD from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Ecuador, her LLM in human rights and humanitarian law from American University, Washington College of Law, her master’s degree in legal argumentation from the University of Alicante, her master’s in law specializing in tax law from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Ecuador, and her diploma in law specializing in constitutional law from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Ecuador. She graduated as an attorney from Universidad de Azuay and was admitted to the Courts of the Republic of Ecuador. Additionally, she holds an honorary doctorate from Universidad ICA, Peru.
Aguirre was an event speaker at the Dialogue.