The Cámara de Industrias y Producción (CIP), known until 2009 as the Cámara de Industriales de Pichincha, is an Ecuadorian trade association of manufacturing and other productive companies, based in Quito. Founded on 5 September 1936 by seventeen industrialists of Pichincha Province, it represented the industry of the Ecuadorian highlands for seven decades and is now, with the Cámara de Industrias de Guayaquil, one of the country's principal industrial chambers. Its member firms account for about 30 per cent of Ecuador's non-oil GDP and more than 150,000 direct jobs, according to the chamber.
History Foundation The chamber was created in the aftermath of the collapse of Ecuador's cocoa economy and the Four Days' War of 1932, when a 1936 decree of the government of Federico Páez called on producers to organise themselves into chambers. Seventeen industrialists from the textile, flour-milling, leather, tobacco, brewing, pasta, timber and mining sectors, most of them already members of the Quito chamber of commerce, founded the Cámara de Industriales de la Provincia de Pichincha on 5 September 1936. Its first president was the industrialist Ramón González Artigas, who served again in 1955–56. In its early decades the chamber pressed for tariff protection and industrial promotion laws, and from 1945 it published a bulletin. It created the decoration "Al Mérito Industrial" for member companies in the late 1950s.
National voice of industry During the oil boom of the 1970s and the return to democracy after 1979 the chamber's presidents were regular participants in national economic debate. Pedro Kohn, president in 1984–86 and again in 1988–89, was a prominent critic of the economic policy of the governments of León Febres Cordero and Rodrigo Borja, and in the 1990s the chamber took positions on state modernisation and privatisation under presidents Roberto Peña Durini and Kurt Freund Ruf. The chamber is a founding member of the Federación Nacional de Cámaras de Industrias del Ecuador, created in 1972 to group the provincial industrial chambers.
Cámara de Industrias y Producción In 2009 the chamber reformed its statutes, dropped the provincial limitation on membership and adopted its present name, Cámara de Industrias y Producción. It then created the post of executive president, held in succession by Pablo Dávila, Richard Martínez (from June 2014), Pablo Zambrano Albuja (from July 2018) and, since October 2022, María Paz Jervis, the first woman to hold it. The chamber marked its 80th anniversary in November 2016 with a ceremony at which portraits of its 34 past board presidents were displayed. Its offices are in the Edificio Las Cámaras on Avenida Amazonas in Quito, shared with other business associations.
Presidents The chamber is governed by a Junta Directiva whose president is elected by the members, usually for a one- or two-year term; since 2009 a salaried executive president runs the institution day to day. The following presidents of the board are attested in published sources; the list is not complete.
Years President Source 1936–1938 Ramón González Artigas 1951 Manuel E. Cadena Arteaga 1955–1956 Ramón González Artigas 1964–1965 Eduardo Sosa Salazar Gonzalo Chiriboga Cordovez 1972–1973 Ernesto Rivadeneira Eugenio Hieremans 1975 Jaime Robalino Vásconez Pablo Ruiz Pérez Eduardo Villaquirán Jacinto Vélez 1984–1986 Pedro Kohn Gustavo Pinto Albornoz 1988–1989 Pedro Kohn Roberto Peña Durini 1992–1994 Kurt Freund Ruf Gustavo Pinto Albornoz Carlos Ponce Martínez 2010 Diego Fernández-Salvador 2014 José Vicente Maldonado 2015–2016 Ignacio Bustamante 2016 Bernardo Gómez 2018–2019 José Vicente Maldonado 2019–2021 Ignacio Bustamante 2023 Sebastián Borja 2024–2026 Ignacio Bustamante 2026–2027 José María Ponce
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