Lourdes Flores Nano

Lourdes Flores Nano
Lourdes Flores in 2011
Member of Congress
In office July 26, 1995 – July 26, 2000
Member of the Democratic Constituent Congress
In office November 22, 1992 – July 28, 1995
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office July 28, 1990 – April 5, 1992
Personal details
Born	(1959-10-07) October 7, 1959 (age 57) Lima, Peru
Political party	Partido Popular Cristiano Unidad Nacional
Alma mater	IE Business School
Profession	Lawyer

Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano (born October 7, 1959) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who was a councilwoman of Lima, former member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1990 to 1992, former Constituent Congresswoman from 1992 to 1995, former Peruvian Congresswoman representing Lima from 1995 to 2000, and former chair of the Christian People's Party. Flores served as the first chairwoman of the Christian People's Party (Partido Popular Cristiano) from January 2003 until November 2011. She is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank, the Inter-American Dialogue.

Flores unsuccessfully ran in the Peruvian 2001 and 2006 presidential elections, finishing third in both occasions. In 2016, she was Alan García's first running mate in Popular Alliance presidential ticket, a dissolved coalition of the Peruvian Aprista Party and the Christian People's Party.

Lourdes Flores was born in Lima on 7 October 1959. She studied at the Colegio Reyna de Los Ángeles and the law school of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She pursued graduate studies in Madrid, earning a master in legal advice at Instituto de Empresa (currently known as IE Business School) and a doctorate in law at the Universidad Complutense. As an independent lawyer, Flores specialized in civil and business law. In 1992, Flores attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She later taught commercial law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the University of Lima. She served for two years as rector of the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola.