Ana Belén Tulcanaza-Prieto received a B.S. degree in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, in 2010. She earned a Master’s degree in Finance and Risk Management from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador, in 2015, and an M.Sc. degree in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics, and Econometrics from The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 2016. She completed her Ph.D. in Business Administration at Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT), Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea, in 2020. From 2017 to 2020, she served as a research assistant at the KIT Finance Laboratory in Gumi-si, Republic of Korea. Subsequently, from 2020 to 2021, she held the position of Assistant Professor at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN) in Quito, Ecuador. Currently, she is a full-time lecturer and researcher at the Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA) in Quito. Additionally, she serves as an invited professor at Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN), IAEN in Ecuador, and Universidad Latina de Costa Rica. Her research interests lie in the areas of corporate finance, business strategy, investments, applied statistics, and econometrics.
