Clarisa Hardy

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Clarisa Hardy
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Clarisa Hardy in 2011
Minister of Planning
In office
March 11, 2006 –January 8, 2008

Clarisa Rut Hardy Raskovan (born December 15, 1945, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born psychologist, social anthropologist, writer, academic, and politician from Chile. A member of the Socialist Party, she served as Minister for Social Development and Planning during the first term of President Michelle Bachelet, from 2006 to 2008, and has since remained active in Chilean center-left politics as a think-tank leader and academic.

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Early life and education

Hardy was born into a Jewish family. [1] Her paternal grandparents, Julius Hirsch Hardy and Elisa Kunin, were of English origin and came from a family of rabbis; fleeing anti-Jewish persecution in Russia and Germany, they emigrated to South America and settled in Argentina, and it was during this period of persecution that the family changed its surname from "Hirsch" to "Hardy". [2] She is one of three children of the Argentine filmmaker Boris Hardy (born Boris Hirsch) [3] and Sara Elena Raskovan, who died of cancer in 2008. [2] Fleeing to escape from the Nazis, the family arrived to Chile when Clarisa was five years old. [4] [5] [6] She obtained Chilean nationality in 1990. [7]

She studied at the Scuola Italiana of Santiago, [3] and then psychology at the University of Chile, where she was a student leader and militant of the Movimiento Universitario de Izquierda (University Left Movement, MUI). [7] She later obtained a postgraduate diploma in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. [3] [8]

Career

Early public service and exile (1972–1983)

Hardy's first job as a public servant came in 1972, during the government of President Salvador Allende, when she was appointed head of the Department of Labor Relations, within the Sub-management of Current Consumption, at the state-owned Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (Corfo). [4] [3] [8] [7]

In 1974, Hardy left Chile to teach at the School of Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. [4] [8] Later, also in Mexico, between 1982 and 1983, she worked as a researcher for the Center for Social and Economic Studies of the Third World (Ceestem).

Return to Chile and social-policy work (1983–2005)

At the end of 1983, Hardy returned to Chile to work in social affairs. In 1990, she was appointed head of the Department of Social Programs of the Solidarity and Social Investment Fund (Fosis), under the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation, the same year she obtained Chilean citizenship. [4] [7] She was later appointed Executive Secretary of the Chilean government's inter-ministry Social Affairs Committee. [4]

In 1994, she started working for Fundación Chile 21, a socialist think tank founded by the social democrat politician and later president Ricardo Lagos, responsible for the social affairs workshops. In 1996, she was appointed coordinator of the Social Affairs Department, while at the same time working as an advisor to the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare and to the Minister Secretary-General of Government. [9] [7]

In 2000, Hardy was appointed Executive Director of Fundación Chile 21, and at the same time became part of the advisory committee of the National Women's Service (Sernam). She remained in the position until 2005. [10]

Minister for Social Development and Planning (2006–2008)

In 2006, she was appointed Minister for Social Development and Planning by President Michelle Bachelet, becoming the fourth woman to hold the post. [4] [3] [8] She remained in office until 2008. [4] [3] [8] [11]

Later career (2014–present)

In 2014, she was named Executive Director of the progressive think tank Fundación Dialoga, after the resignation of Michelle Bachelet, who had just been elected president of Chile for a second term. [12]

Since 2015, Hardy has chaired the board of the Instituto Igualdad, a think tank affiliated with the Socialist Party of Chile, a position she continued to hold in the early 2020s. [13] In late 2020 and early 2021, she was among a group of Socialist Party figures who publicly backed Paula Narváez's bid for the party's presidential pre-candidacy ahead of the 2021 Chilean general election. [14]

Alongside her political and think-tank work, Hardy has also continued an academic career, serving as an associate professor and coordinator of the Center for Public Management Studies at the University of Valparaíso, and has worked as a consultant on social policy and social protection for Latin American governments and international organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organization, and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. [15] [16]

Personal life

Hardy is separated and has two sons, Marco and Ariel, both born in the 1970s. [17]

Published works

References

  1. ↑ Clarisa Hardy: "Soy judía y se ha insultado memoria de mi familia". Ñuke Mapu, Centro de Documentación Mapuche
  2. 1 2 "El secreto vía crucis personal de Clarisa Hardy tras abandonar el Mideplan". El Mostrador (in Spanish). January 12, 2008. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Caras (Santiago), 12 de agosto de 2005, p.48
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Inicio – 13.cl". Archived from the original on September 28, 2008. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ S.A.P., El Mercurio (December 7, 2006). "Fuerte altercado entre mapuche y ministra por racismo". Emol.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  6. ↑ Calbucura, Jorge. "Clarisa Hardy: "Soy judía y se ha insultado memoria de mi familia"" . Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "Clarisa Hardy". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish). August 10, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "FACSO 2010" . Retrieved September 4, 2016.[ permanent dead link ]
  9. ↑ "Fundación Chile 21". Archived from the original on August 21, 2009. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  10. ↑ Centro de Documentación del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social de Chile
  11. ↑ S.A.P., El Mercurio (January 8, 2008). "Bachelet realiza tercer cambio de gabinete para enfrentar nueva etapa de Gobierno". Emol.com. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  12. ↑ Clarisa Hardy asumirá como presidenta de la Fundación Dialoga tras renuncia de Bachelet.
  13. ↑ "Clarisa Hardy". FreshEd (in Spanish). February 26, 2023. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
  14. ↑ "Militantes del PS buscan que Paula Narváez sea candidata presidencial". El Dínamo (in Spanish). December 26, 2020. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
  15. ↑ "Clarisa Hardy Raskovan". Centro de Estudios para la Gestión Pública, Universidad de Valparaíso (in Spanish). Retrieved September 7, 2026.
  16. ↑ "Debate: A cincuenta años del triunfo de la Unidad Popular". Anales de la Universidad de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved September 7, 2026.
  17. ↑ "Chile: Las mujeres de Bachelet". Mujeres en Red (in Spanish). 2008. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  18. 1 2 3 4 "Hardy, Clarisa". Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved September 7, 2026.
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