Esteban López 

Director of Diversity Initiatives 
New Hampshire College & University Council 

A native from Quito, Ecuador, Esteban López grew up 
in Latin America where he attended the Pontifical 
Catholic University of Ecuador and earned a degree in 
Economics. López moved to United States in 2000 
where he earned a Master’s Degree in Finance (2001) 
and a second Master’s Degree in Community Economic 
Development (2005) from Southern New Hampshire 
University. López utilizes his strong economics 
background to build socially responsible programs for 
the advancement of the Latino community in New 
Hampshire. 

Esteban López started his career in the finance industry, where he worked as a financial 
advisor for the seventh largest financial institution in Ecuador, one year later he moved into 
one of the country’s largest mutual fund investment corporations where he successfully 
developed competitive mutual fund products. 

Today, Esteban López is the Director of Diversity Initiatives at the New Hampshire 
College & University Council, a non-profit consortium of seventeen public and private 
higher education institutions serving more than 70,000 students throughout the state. He is 
charged with making the state’s post-secondary campuses accessible and welcoming for 
minority students. He focuses on developing effective partnerships to connect 
underrepresented students with higher education opportunities, finding ways to assist with 
the complicated process of preparing for postsecondary education, de-mystifying the 
application process, and developing strategies for successfully completing degree 
programs. López is a recognized expert on minority issues in higher education and a strong 
believer in education as society’s greatest equalizer. 

Esteban López also serves on the Monsignor Philip Kenney Scholarship Advisory 
Committee, Latinos Unidos Scholarship Committee, as a Board Member at Visión Hispana 
New Hampshire, Vote Now New Hampshire Hispanics, and the New Hampshire Higher 
Education Assistance Foundation (NHHEAF), and was appointed by Governor John Lynch 
on September of 2005 to serve on the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs, 
in which he served from 2005 to January of 2008.