Mishel Mancheno

Mancheno studied law at the Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo [es] and business management at the Interamerican University of Ecuador. She has a master's degree from the Spanish University of Valencia.^[1]

On 23 November 2023 at the Carondelet Palace she was formally made the Legal Secretary to the new President Daniel Noboa.^[1] Other appointments that day included Gabriela Sommerfeld,^[2] and Arianna Tanca. New ministers in the government also included Ivonne Núñez, Monica Palencia and Zaida Rovira.^[3]

In 2024, Mancheno joined the board of the Mining Control Agency. She had previously been a director of the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources before it closed.^[4]

In September 2024 she left her position as the president's legal secretary to become a National Democratic Action (ADN) politician. She was replaced by Santiago Andino.^[5] The ADN party registered their National Assembly candidates for the 2025 elections in the province of Chimborazo in October 2024. Mancheno was their prime candidate.^[6]

In the 2025 elections she was elected to the National Assembly to represent Chimborazo.^[7] In May she became the first vice-president on the assembly with Niels Olsen who was also from the National Democratic Action party as the President. The second vice-president was Carmen Tiupul from the Pachakutik party.^[8]