Place/Date of Birth: Santiago, Chile, 6. September 1959
Marital status: Married
Children: Camilla (25), Julian (24), Fabian (22)
Profession Lawyer
Languages: English (fluent); French (fluent); German (advanced); Dutch (beginner)
Education
1977 – 1981: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Diploma in Law
1984 – 1988: Chilean Diplomatic Academy “Andrés Bello’’
1987 – 1988: Oxford University (Sommerville College); Scholarship for Oxford Service Programme
1993 – 1995: London School of Economics and Political Science, London University; Magister in Law (LLM)
2010: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Diploma in administrative Law
Professional Experience
January 1986 – September 1987: Department of Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
July 1988 – March 1993: Third Secretary, Embassy of Chile to the United Kingdom
March 1993 – August 1993: Director of Department of Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1994 – 1995: On leave from the service
December 1995 – February 1999: Second Secretary, Cabinet of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
March 1997 - June 1999: Second Secretary, Embassy of Chile to Austria/ Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna (UNOV)
June 1999 – February 2002: First Secretary, Embassy of Chile to the United Kingdom
February 2002 – July 2004: Head of Cabinet of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
July 2004 – September 2009: Counsellor, Embassy of Chile to Ireland
September 2009 – June 2011: Department of the International Court of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile
June 2011 – January 2014: Minister-Counsellor, Deputy Head of the Embassy of Chile to Belgium / Alternate Permanent Representative of the Mission of Chile to the European Union
January – March 2014: Coordinator for the transition of the presidential power to the elected President of Chile Mrs. Michelle Bachelet
March 2014 – March 2018: Ambassador, Director-General of the Chile State protocol
Since August 2018: Ambassador-designate, Embassy of Chile to Austria
