Rector of the University of San Francisco de Quito, Santiago Gangotenadied on the night of this Friday, April 21, 2023, after being hit by a bus that was crossing María Angélica Idrovo Street, in the capital.
After the event, the pedagogue was transferred to the Hospital de Los Valles. However, his death was confirmed in this medical center.
Gangotena _who in 2021 married Macarena Valarezo, former queen and former councilor of Quito_, was the founder of the University of San Francisco and co-founder of the Colegio Menor San Francisco de Quito. In addition, he worked as a professor at various universities abroad and in Ecuador for more than 30 years.
The university reports that the professor was a newspaper columnist the market and Today. In addition, he wrote the books The fourth State of the Mind, The Meditation; Vegetarian cooking blog and co-author of the third translation of the Tao Te Ching directly from Chinese to Spanish.
In 1996, he received an honorary doctorate from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. the first university of international programs in the world.
In 2009, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor given by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to its alumni for “outstanding contributions to humanity.”
In the same way, in 2012 he was awarded the “Federico Gonzalez Suarez” Awarded by the Federation of Ecuadorian Chambers of Commerce for Educational Merit in recognition of his contribution to youth education.
The businessman also received an award “Confusius Institute An excellent individual″, by the Government of China, 2015; and recognitionhero of freedom”, 2018 by the Ecuadorian Institute of Political Economy, thanks to his contribution to education in Ecuador according to the elementary principle of freedom.
Source: Eluniverso
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