Ph.D., Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua and a senior fellow at FLACSO. Dr. Sandoval brings three decades of diplomatic and academic leadership to the founding chancellorship of NIGA University, where she leads the institution's strategic vision and its international charter.
Ph.D., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Previously Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua-Managua and a former director of the Central American Institute of Public Administration (ICAP). Dr. Pérez-Mendoza leads NIGA's faculty, curriculum, and academic policy across all ten schools and three campuses.
“To establish a university is to make a wager on the future of a country. We make that wager today, in the conviction that Nicaragua's institutions, its waters, and its place in the world deserve to be tended by men and women trained for that purpose. NIGA is built for them.”
— Dr. Elena Marisol Sandoval Quintero, Founding Chancellor
