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Economist from Ecuador
Magdalena León Trujillo
Magdalena León Trujillo in 2015
BornCayambe, Ecuador
Alma materCentral University of Ecuador
Occupation(s)Economist, feminist
Websitewww.magdalenaleont.net

Magdalena León Trujillo, commonly known as Magdalena León T (born 1959), is an Ecuadorian economist and researcher specializing in feminist economics, solidarity economy, and Sumak Kawsay as an alternative to traditional development and the economic implications therein.

Education

Trujillo graduated from the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Central University of Ecuador and a gender studies degree from the World University Service campus in Santiago, Chile.

Career

She is the coordinator of the Network of Women Transforming the Economy (REMTE) and the National Group on the Debt of Ecuador, the Chairwoman of the Studies, Action, and Social Participation Foundation(FEDAEPS) and is a member of the organization "Feminism and Change in Latin America and the Caribbean." From 2009 to 2013, Trujillo was a member of the team that formulated the National Plan for Better Living in Ecuador.

She is the president and a researcher of the Foundation of Studies, Action and Social Participation (FEDAEPS), and the Coordinator of the Latin American Women Transforming the Economy Network (REMTE), of which she has been a member since its foundation in 1997. She is also a member of the Institute of Ecuadorian Studies, the workgroup Feminism and Social Change in Latin America, and the Caribbean and Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Trujillo also heads the Secretariat of the Hemispheric Council of the Americas Social Forum and the National Debt Group of Ecuador.

Citations

  1. "Magdalena León". gefedi.una.ac.cr (in Spanish). II Congreso Internacional Universitario Géneros, Feminismos y Diversidades. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  2. Houtart, François (2 June 2011). "El concept de sumak kawsai (buen vivir) y su correspondencia con el bien común de la humanidad". alainet.org (in Spanish). América Latina en movimiento. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  3. "Exotismo letal". El Telégrafo (in Spanish). 21 June 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
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