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Hugo Lavados | |
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| Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism | |
| In office 8 January 2008 – 11 March 2010 | |
| President | Michelle Bachelet |
| Preceded by | Alejandro Ferreiro Yazigi |
| Succeeded by | Juan Andrés Fontaine |
| Superintendent of Securities and Insurance of Chile | |
| In office 11 March 1990 – 11 March 1994 | |
| President | Patricio Aylwin |
| Preceded by | Fernando Alvarado |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Yarur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 August 1949 |
| Party | Christian Democratic |
| Spouse | Mary Rose Mackenzie |
| Children | Two |
| Parent(s) | Manuel Lavados Luisa Montes |
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| Occupation | Researcher, Scholar and Politician |
| Profession | Economist |
Hugo Sebastián Lavados Montes (born 4 February 1950) is a Chilean economist who served as minister during the first government of Michelle Bachelet (2006–2010).[1]
He has served as rector of the San Sebastián University (USS), a position he assumed for a second time on 1 June 2023. He was also a minister of state, serving as Minister of Economy during Michelle Bachelet's first government.[2]
Biography
[edit]The son of Manuel Lavados, a small industrial entrepreneur who operated an iron foundry on the same property as his home, and Luisa Montes, a primary-school teacher who taught at School No. 6 in Talca, he studied—like his older brothers Jaime ―who later served as head of the University of Chile― and Iván (who directed the Inter-University Development Center for more than thirty years)—at the boys' high school in that city[3] and later at the José Victorino Lastarria High School in Santiago.[4]
He is an economist from the University of Chile and holds a master's degree from Boston University.[4][5]
He served as Superintendent of Securities and Insurance from 1990 to 1994,[5] and concurrently as a member of the Antitrust Resolution Commission.[4] He later became general manager of Banco BHIF (1994–1998) and executive vice president of Habitacoop, a position he assumed in December 1998 while the cooperative was facing significant difficulties.[4]
Lavados subsequently served as director of the state export-promotion agency ProChile until march 2006, when Ricardo Lagos' government ended
He was appointed Minister of Economy, Development and Reconstruction, at 2008 during M. Bachelet first government (Lavados is a member of the Christian Democratic Party of Chile, which at the time formed part of the governing coalition).[6][7]
He left the ministry at the end of the administration in March 2010, shortly after the legal reform that created a dedicated institutional framework for the tourism sector.[8]
At the beginning of 2013, he became chairman of the board of AFP Cuprum following its acquisition by Principal Financial Group.[9] The following year, he was appointed rector of the San Sebastián University,[10] a position he held until March 2018, when he was succeeded by Carlos Williamson.[11]
As rector, he faced criticism over his connections with the governing coalition, which critics argued enabled him to act as a lobbyist in securing state funding.[12]
Among his academic activities, he has served as a research professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chile and has taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic development, and project evaluation in the university's economics program.[5]
He was recognized as the outstanding academic of the Faculty of Administration and Economics at the University of Santiago, Chile in 1983.[5]
He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank in Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Paraguay on securities-market reform and modernization.
On 25 May 2016, he joined the Board of Directors of Everis as an Independent Director.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Extrañeza en sector privado por la salida de Ferreiro y Rojas pese a positiva evaluación". Economía y Negocios. 9 January 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
- ↑ C. Ramírez and M. Winter, "Extrañeza en sector privado por la salida de Ferreiro y Rojas pese a positiva evaluación", El Mercurio, 9 January 2008; accessed 28 March 2018.
- ↑ "Iván Lavados Montes, abogado y especialista en derecho económico", El Mercurio, 7 November 2009; accessed 28 March 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 María Cristina Silva Méndez, "De provincianos a autoridades", El Mercurio, 22 June 2002; accessed 28 March 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 "Presidente Lagos designó a Hugo Lavados nuevo director de ProChile", El Mercurio, 6 August 2003; accessed 28 March 2018.
- ↑ Teresa Correa, "ProChile fija sus tareas para aprovechar los TLC", El Mercurio, p. B3, 26 August 2003; accessed 28 March 2018.
- ↑ Eduardo Olivares and Mario Riveros, "La dupla Velasco-Lavados se fortalece en el nuevo gabinete económico", El Mercurio, p. B12, 10 January 2008; accessed 28 March 2018.
- ↑ "Law No. 20,423". Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ↑ AFP Cuprum to the SVS, 4 February 2013
- ↑ San Sebastián University, 1 July 2014
- ↑ "Profesor Carlos Williamson asume como Rector de la Universidad San Sebastián", USS website, "Temas de Interés" section, 21 March 2018; accessed 28 March 2018.
- ↑ "Mónica González: 'Me gustaría saber cuánto le paga la USS a su rector Hugo Lavados, ex ministro DC y lobbista para obtener beneficios fiscales'", El Mostrador, 5 July 2016; accessed 28 March 2018.