Biography
Alex Panchi serves as Entrepreneurship Coordinator at CONQUITO, the Economic Development Agency of Quito, Ecuador's capital city. He leads the Entrepreneurship Unit and directs the EMPRETEC Center. There he champions an incubation policy that combines financing, training and technical assistance, a formula he hopes will make Quito the engine of Ecuador's development.
He has more than five years of experience in entrepreneurial development, business incubation and scale-up. Before his current role, he was CONQUITO's head of MSMEs and the Popular and Solidarity Economy, leading capacity-building, technical assistance and market-linkage programs for the city's small businesses and productive organizations.
His career spans international cooperation, public management and consulting. He has worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), several subnational governments and Ecuador's Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion, where he supported economic inclusion strategies for subsistence-level entrepreneurs and young people. He is also part of an economic consulting firm that works with startups and MSMEs, and has served as a mentor and consultant on business models, market analysis and business management.
Mr. Panchi holds a degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador and a Master's in Finance and Risk Management from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. He began his career as a data analyst at the university's Socio-Environmental Policy Observatory.
Passionate about econometrics, entrepreneurship and public policy design.