Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018,becoming the first woman to hold the presidency. She was re-elected in December 2013 with over 62% of the vote,having previously received 54% in 2006,making her the first President of Chile to be re-elected since 1932. After her second term,she served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. Earlier in her career,she was appointed as the first executive director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
Carolina Montserrat ToháMorales is a Chilean political scientist,educator,and politician currently serving as Chile's Minister of the Interior and Public Security since 6 September 2022,during the administration of President Gabriel Boric. Tohápreviously served as Minister Secretary General of Government in the administration of President Michelle Bachelet from March to December 2009,becoming the first woman to hold this position.
The first lady of Chile is the title for the wife of the president of Chile,who is traditionally responsible for directing and coordinating activities in the social field of the presidency and accompanying the president in ceremonies or official activities,for example,on state visits. Although not an official title,it is widely used in formal protocol and has been used in some decrees.
Vivianne Amelia Blanlot Soza is a Chilean economist and politician. Her father Jorge Enrique Blanlot was an Army captain,and her grandfather General Enrique Blanlot Reisig. She has a degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and MA in the same discipline applied by the American University in the United States.
Felipe Harboe Bascuñán is a Dutch-born Chilean politician from the Party for Democracy and current Senator in Congress. He is a former Deputy Interior Minister of Chile and acting Minister of the Interior and a Deputy in Congress.
Paulina Eliana Veloso Valenzuela is a Chilean lawyer and Socialist Party politician who served as the Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency of Chile from March 11,2006 to March 27,2007.
The lives,roles,and rights of women in Chile have gone through many changes over time. Chilean women's societal roles have historically been impacted by traditional gender roles and a patriarchal culture,but throughout the twentieth century,women increasingly involved themselves in politics and protest,resulting in provisions to the constitution to uphold equality between men and women and prohibit sex discrimination.
The Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency is the cabinet-level administrative office which serves in an advisory role to the President of Chile and her or his ministers in the governments' relations with the National Congress of Chile,the development of the legislative agenda,and keeping track of the bills and other legislative activity in Congress as they pertain to the government.
Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet is a Chilean politician and the current mayor of Providencia,a commune of Santiago,serving since 2016. Prior to her current position,she held the role of member of the Chilean Congress from 1990 to 1998,and subsequently served as a Senator from 1998 to 2011. In January 2011,she left her Senate seat to assume the role of Minister of Labor and Social Security under Chilean President Sebastián Piñera until July 2013. In the 2013 Chilean general election,she ran for President with the support of the Independent Democrat Union Party. However,she lost in a runoff to former President Michelle Bachelet.
María Ignacia Benítez was the Chilean Minister of the Environment,between 2010 and 2014.
Cecilia Pérez Jara is a Chilean politician which has served as minister in the two governments of Sebastián Piñera.
Ximena Cecilia Rincón González is a Chilean lawyer and politician. She is formerly Chile's Labor Minister and former Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency under President Michelle Bachelet.
Ángela Margarita Jeria Gómez was a Chilean archaeologist. Mother of the former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet,she was the wife of the Chilean Air Force Brigadier General Alberto Bachelet,who died after being tortured during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Jeria served informally in the role of first lady during the first Bachelet government,accompanying her daughter to several official functions. Her official protocolary role was "Director of the Sociocultural Area of the Presidency".
Mario Adolfo del Carmen Fernández Baeza is a Chilean lawyer,professor and politician,member of the Christian Democratic Party. He served as the Minister of the Interior and Public Security in Michelle Bachelet's second term.
Claudia Pascual Grau is a social anthropologist and politician from Chile,a member of the Communist Party.
María Carolina Schmidt Zaldívar is a Chilean politician and businesswoman who was the Minister of the Environment between August 2018 and November 2021,in the second government of Sebastián Piñera. She also served as the Minister of Education from April 2013 to March 2014.
Paula Narváez Ojeda is a Chilean politician and psychologist who is the Chile ambassador to the United Nations under President Gabriel Boric. She was elected as the seventy-ninth President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council on 27 July 2023.
Paula Ximena Quintana Meléndez was a Chilean sociologist,academic,and politician. From 2012 to 2016 she served as a councilor for Valparaíso commune. From 2008 to 2010 she was Minister of Planning in the first government of President Michelle Bachelet.
The Ministry of Environment is a ministry of the State of Chile that is in charge of collaborating with the President of the Republic in the design and application of policies,plans and programs in environmental matters,as well as in the protection and conservation of biological diversity and of renewable and hydric natural resources,promoting sustainable development,the integrity of the environmental policy and its normative regulation.
María Paulina Saball Astaburuaga is a Chilean politician and social worker. She was a minister during the second government of Michelle Bachelet.
