Alejandro Ponce Villacís

From the beginning of his professional career, he has looked upon law as a means to satisfy the need for order in society. Accordingly, despite his skill as a trial lawyer, he has achieved important agreements in large and complex cases and thereby satisfied his clients’ needs. As a lawyer he works in litigation. Throughout his career, he hasn’t shied away from defending difficult causes which have in turn had a profound effect on the development of law. Accordingly, after almost two decades of professional practice, he is considered one of the few experts on complex litigation in Ecuador. He has participated in the defense of some of the largest cases ever tried in Ecuador, including environmental issues. Alejandro sees himself as both a lawyer and an academic. He was the first Ecuadorian lawyer to lead a successful case before the Inter-American Human Rights System, i.e. before both the Commission and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, which ended with a verdict of condemnation against the Ecuadorian State. Afterwards, he participated in the defense of the majority of cases against Ecuador. Throughout the Americas, he is the attorney who, individually, has represented the most cases of human rights violations before the highest court of the continent.

In litigation of constitutional issues he has obtained significant verdicts, including the one that led to the elimination of compulsory military service in Ecuador.

His university studies were completed at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, the University of Wisconsin and the Washington College of Law at American University. Languages: Spanish and English.