Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (born April 6, 1963 in Guayaquil) won a second-round election run-off on November 26, 2006, and assumed the Ecuadorian Presidency on January 15, 2007, with vice-president Lenin Moreno. As the president of Ecuador, Correa represents the head of the executive branch of the Ecuadorian government. Correa's term ends January 15, 2011. Should Correa finish his term as president of Ecuador, he will be the first Ecuadorian president since 1996 to do so.

A graduate of the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Correa went on to study economics at the Catholic University of Lovaina in Belgium and obtained a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States in 2001.

Correa is considered a left-leaning president, but has not gained notoriety for the kind of anti-United States sentiment expressed by Venezuelan leftist president Hugo Chavez, or Bolivian leftist president Evo Morales, both considered to be Correa's allies.

In the summer of 2008, President Correa dismissed the Ecuadorian Congress and convened a constitutional assembly, which wrote a new Ecuadorian constitution. The proposed constitution went to referendum in September of 2008 and was approved by a significant margin.