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  Daniel Roy Gilchrist Noboa Azín was born in Miami, Florida, United States on 30 November 1987, and was raised in Guayaquil. He is the son of Ecuadorian businessman Álvaro Noboa and Ecuadorian physician Annabella Azín. Noboa graduated from the New York University Stern School of Business in 2010, and later earned a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He studied at Harvard University in 2020. In 2022, he obtained a master's degree in political communication and strategic governance from George Washington University under the supervision of professor Roberto Izurieta, Noboa's current press secretary.