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Carlos Montúfar

Carlos Montúfar

President of the Board, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Carlos Montúfar is an Ecuadorian physicist who has dedicated his life to education.

He is currently President of the Board of Universidad San Francisco de Quito-USFQ where he also served as Provost and President.  He obtained a B.S, M.S. and Ph.D in Physics at the University of Notre Dame and a postdoctoral degree at the University of Illinois at  Urbana- Champaign in NuclearEngineering. Carlos is convinced in the Liberal Arts as an education philosophy and was one of the founders of Universidad San Francisco the Quito that has become, in only 33 years, the leading higher education institution in Ecuador.

In 1995, Carlos was one of the founders of the Colegio Menor San Francisco de Quito, which is one of the top schools in the country along with a campus in Guayaquil. Both institutions have over 3000 students and are now w part of Nord Anglia Education.The success of these institutions lies in the quality teaching staff, their curriculum based on  the Liberal Arts along with the foundational principles of “goodness, beauty and truth.”

Carlos firmly believes that education is fundamental for development and is transcendental for the future of Ecuador. In a special way, it considers that education in science and technology is the only way to insert Ecuador in the future.

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