
Engineer Ilya Espino de Marotta is the first woman to
take on the position of administrator of the Canal Authority
of Panama. The mandate of the office, which has begun
officially yesterday with the handover with
the outgoing administrator Ricaurte Vásquez Morales, will have
end in 2033. Espino de Marotta has held positions in the
technical, operational and executive sectors of the Authority by starting the
his career in 1985 as a naval engineer at the shipyard
which is part of the industrial branch of the
of the Canal Authority. Among his latest assignments, that of
Vice President of Operations and, from 1 January 2020, that of
Deputy administrator of the Panamanian authority.