Ignacio Briones

Ignacio Briones Rojas (born December 1972 Santiago) is a Chilean economist, academic and politician. He is the current minister of finance of Chile in the second government of Sebastián Piñera.[1][2][3][4] He has been in office since 28 October 2019. Prior to this appointment, Ignacio served as Dean of the School of Government of Adolfo Ibáñez University.

For other uses, see Ignacio.
This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ignacio and the second or maternal family name is Rojas.

Biography

Commercial Engineer, Graduate in Economics, Master in Economics and Political Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Doctor in Political Economy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies . He served as a professor and researcher at the School of Government and the Business School of the Adolfo Ibáñez University, focusing on areas such as Political Economy and Economic and Financial History.

Career

He has been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and companies such as VTR and the stock brokerage LarraínVial.

Political career

During the first government of Sebastián Piñera, he was the coordinator of International Finance of the Ministry of Finance, Director of Public Credit and Director of the Sovereign Funds of the Republic of Chile. In parallel, he was appointed as Executive Director of the Financial Stability Council, Representative of Chile to the G20 in 2012 and Chilean Ambassador to the OECD during the period 2013–2014.

On October 28, 2019, he was appointed Minister of Finance, replacing Felipe Larraín in the second term of Sebastián Piñera, within the framework of a cabinet change after the 2019 protests, which Chile experienced due to the perception of social policies promoted by successive governments since the return to democracy in 1990 and social inequality .[5]

Trivia

Under the pseudonym Eugenio de la Cruz, the UC economist was a relentless gastronomic critic of the defunct magazine Cosas, for many years.

They say that while he was studying in Paris, together with his friend Jorge Ferrando, “they got bitten” by restaurant critics.[6]

References
  1. "Ignacio Briones". Escuela de Gobierno (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  2. "Authors · Econ Journal Watch". econjwatch.org. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  3. "Ignacio Briones". Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  4. ""Gracias": El chascarro en vivo durante conferencia de Ministro Briones". Radio Concierto (in Spanish). 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  5. Freixas, Meritxell. "Cinco claves para entender el estallido social en Chile". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  6. "3. His Critics' Critic", Pascal the Philosopher, University of Toronto Press, pp. 71–91, 2013-12-31, ISBN 978-1-4426-8699-1, retrieved 2020-03-30
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