Roberto Salas Guzmán is an Ecuadorian economist who graduated from the Santiago de Guayaquil Catholic University (UCSG). With more than 20 years of experience as director of multinational companies in Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador; He has an MBA from ESADE in Spain and from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile, which he has complemented with management studies at Kellogg Business School of Northwestern University and the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Strategist in sustainability practices, he has dedicated his professional career to the development of business projects within the framework of transparency, innovation, and management of social and environmental impacts; skills that have earned him multiple international awards.

The Technical Secretariat of Public-Private Partnerships and Delegated Management of the Government of Ecuador works to attract, facilitate, and strengthen public investment with private participation to generate at least 600,000 jobs through the signing of 30 billion dollars in project contracts in the hydrocarbon, energy, infrastructure, mining, health, environment, real estate, sports and culture sectors. These projects contribute to economic recovery, the reduction of the infrastructure deficit and the improvement of public services in Ecuador. This government institution, is the first-instance interlocutor with investors in PPP projects and the delegating entities, supporting them in the structuring and execution of projects, facilitating access to financing, coordinating planning and prioritization, follow-up of results in coordination with the government entities of Ecuador and issues guides and guidelines for PPP initiatives.