Óscar Landerretche

Óscar Landerretche
Executive Vice-president of the CORFO
In office
11 March 2003 – 17 March 2006
Appointed byRicardo Lagos
PresidentRicardo Lagos
(2003−2006)
Michelle Bachelet
(2006−2010)
Preceded byGonzalo Rivas
Succeeded byCarlos Álvarez
Minister of the National Commission of Energy
In office
24 November 1998 – 11 March 2000
PresidentEduardo Frei Ruíz-Tagle
Preceded byJorge Leiva Lavalle
Succeeded byJosé De Gregorio
Undersecretary of Economy
In office
1997 – 24 November 1998
PresidentEduardo Frei Ruíz-Tagle
Preceded byÁngel Maulén
Succeeded byLuis Sánchez Castellón
Personal details
Born (1949-10-18) 18 October 1949
Santiago, Chile
Party
SpouseTrini Moreno
ChildrenÓscar Landerretche Moreno[1][2][3]
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionEconomist

Óscar Alfredo Landerretche Gacitúa (born 18 October 1949) is a Chilean politician who served as minister of State. Similarly, he was president of the board of the Chilean state owned-company Codelco.[4]

Biography

His father was an officer in the Carabineros de Chile, and his mother was a teacher at the Liceo Nº 1 de Niñas in Valparaíso.[5] He is of Basque descent on both his paternal and maternal sides.[6]

He attended the Liceo Eduardo de la Barra in Valparaíso.[7] He earned a degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Chile. He later obtained a master's degree in economics from the University of the Andes in Bogotá and a doctorate in political economy from the University of Oxford in England.[8]

He is married to Trini Moreno and is the father of economist Óscar Landerretche Moreno.

Political career

In his youth, he joined the Socialist Party of Chile (PS). In 1971, he received military and intelligence training in Cuba.[5][9] Following the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in September 1973, he participated in the reorganization of the Socialist Party. The party's first Central Committee plenary meeting after the coup was held in October 1973 at his home in the Villa Aurora neighborhood of Santiago.[5][9] In the second half of 1974, after taking refuge in the Embassy of Colombia, he went into exile.[5][9]

While in Colombia, he earned a master's degree in economics from the University of the Andes and served as a professor and researcher there from 1975 to 1976 and again from 1982 to 1990. Between those appointments, he studied in England, where he completed his doctorate in political economy at the University of Oxford. During the second half of the 1980s, he participated in efforts to encourage several guerrilla movements to disarm and enter legal political life, a process that contributed to Colombia's constitutional reform. The Colombian government publicly invited him to serve on the commission of experts that prepared draft proposals for the new constitution, but he declined the appointment because he planned to return to Chile.

After returning to Chile in 1991, he became head of the Productive Development Division at the Ministry of Economy, Executive Secretary of the Interministerial Committee on Productive Development, a state representative on the board of Colbún in 1992, and president of the National Institute for Standardization in 1994.[8]

In 1997, he was appointed Undersecretary of Economy. The following year, he became president of the National Energy Commission (CNE), taking office during the severe energy crisis caused by the 1998–1999 Chilean drought.[10][9]

He later served as Executive Vice President of the state-owned Production Development Corporation (CORFO),[11] vice chairman of the board of the National Petroleum Company (ENAP), chairman of the board of SERCOTEC, Executive Vice President of the National Mining Company (ENAMI),[5][12][13][14] and a state-appointed member of the board of the Quebrada Blanca mining company.[15]

He has served as an academic at the Graduate School of the Institute of Public Affairs, University of Chile, now the University's Faculty of Government. He has also been director of the institute's graduate school, an MBA lecturer at the Federico Santa María Technical University, a visiting professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Talca, and a lecturer at the School of Government and Public Management of the University of Chile.

References

  1. ↑ "Óscar Landerretche padre niega haber integrado la comisión patrimonial del PS". Radio Cooperativa. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  2. ↑ "Landerretche, el economista PS cercano a Lagos". Canal 13. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "Quién es Óscar Landerretche, el alto ejecutivo de Codelco víctima de un atentado en su hogar". 24 Horas. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Óscar Landerretche G.: 'Esto no resiste más. La idea no era que Codelco lo manejara el ministro de Hacienda'". La Tercera. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 La Tercera (Santiago), 25 March 2007, Reportajes, p. 16.
  6. ↑ "Revista Área Minera". 7 August 2006.
  7. ↑ "El Mercurio (Santiago), 23 March 2003, p. D22". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  8. 1 2 El Mercurio (Santiago), 3 March 1996, p. B4.
  9. 1 2 3 4 La Tercera (Santiago), 14 March 1999, Reportajes, p. 12.
  10. ↑ La Segunda (Santiago), 24 November 1998, p. 2.
  11. ↑ La Segunda (Santiago), 13 March 2003, p. 19.
  12. ↑ El Mercurio (Santiago), 28 March 2006, p. B1.
  13. ↑ "La Nación". 19 March 2007. Archived from the original on 16 July 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  14. ↑ "Teletrece". 19 March 2007.
  15. ↑ El Mercurio (Santiago), 1 July 2007, p. B12.
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