Ecuador President-Elect Noboa to Name Economist Sariha Moya as Finance Chief

  • Incoming finance minister negotiated with Indigenous leaders
  • Moya taking part in the president-elect’s trip to Washington
Daniel NoboaPhotographer: Stefani Reynolds/AFP
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Ecuador’s President-elect Daniel Noboa will name Sariha Moya, a career planning official, as the country’s next finance minister in charge of steering the crisis-prone dollarized economy, according to three people close to his transition team.

Moya, who is currently in Washington attending official gatherings with Noboa before heading to New York, is being introduced as Ecuador’s incoming finance chief in meetings with multilateral lenders and investment bankers, the people said, asking not be named discussing private information.