Cristián Larroulet
| Cristián Larroulet Vignau | |
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| Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency of Chile | |
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In office 11 March 2010 – 11 March 2014 | |
| Preceded by | José Antonio Viera-Gallo |
| Succeeded by | Ximena Rincón |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
26 July 1953 Santiago, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Spouse(s) | María Isabel Philippi Irarrázabal |
| Children |
Matías Pilar Cristián Claudia Bernadette Andrés Isabel |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile |
| Occupation | Economist, Academic, Researcher |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau (born 1953 in Temuco) was the Minister General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile under President Sebastián Piñera.
Larroulet graduated from high school at Colegio Sagrados Corazones de Manquehue and he obtained his Business Administration degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago, United States of America.
Larroulet was a professor at the Universidad Católica, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, and at the School of Economics of the Universidad de Chile. He was a visiting researcher at the Institute of The Americas, the University of California, San Diego, United States of America. At present, he is Dean of the Universidad del Desarrollo’s Economics Faculty. He has written several academic publications in Chile and abroad and he is author of Economía published by MacGraw-Hill.
Larroulet has experience in the design and implementation of political policies. He was Chief of Staff of the Treasury under former Minister Hernán Büchi, and was the Executive Director of the Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo. From that position, he advised the National Congress on a wide range of policy subjects and he is a member of several commissions, such as the one that led to the General Education Law as well as the new Corporate Governance agreement for Codelco.
Larroulet’s contributions have been recognized with distinctions on several occasions, such as Economist of the Year in 2009 by the newspaper El Mercurio.
Publications
- El Gobierno de las personas: políticas para el Gobierno Local, editor, published by Libertad y Desarrollo, 1998
- Private solutions to public problems, editor, The Center for International Private Enterprise (USA), 1991
- Las tareas de hoy, políticas sociales y económicas para una sociedad libre, editor, published by Zigzag, 1994
- Chile 2010: El desafío del desarrollo, editor, Libertad y Desarrollo, 2001
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by José Antonio Viera-Gallo |
Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency 2010-present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
External links
Media related to Cristián Larroulet at Wikimedia Commons
- Cristián Larroulet Vignau (Spanish)