Edgardo Riveros
Edgardo Riveros | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 1998 – 11 March 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Andrés Aylwin |
| Succeeded by | Ramón Farías |
| Constituency | 30th District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 September 1949 |
| Party | Christian Democracy (DC) |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Edgardo Sebastián Riveros Marín (born 3 September 1949) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy and undersecretary.[1]
Biography
He was born on 3 September 1949 in Los Ángeles, Chile.[2] He is the son of David Riveros Galleguillos and Berta Ernestina Marín.[2] He married María Angélica Massone Péndola and is the father of two children, Sebastián and Rosy.[2]
Professional career
He completed his primary education at Colegio Santa Gema Galgani in San Bernardo and his secondary education at the Liceo de Hombres of the same commune.[2] He began his law studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and later continued at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he qualified as a lawyer on 19 April 1983. His degree was validated in Chile on 30 March 1984.[2]
He subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Political Science and Public International Law from the University of Bonn in Germany.[2]
He has taught Public International Law at the law faculties of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Central University, University of Chile, and Andrés Bello National University. He served as director of the School of Political Science at the Miguel de Cervantes University (2011–2014) and was president of the Centro Democracia y Comunidad between 2010 and 10 March 2014.[2] He is a full member of the Instituto Hispano-Lusoamericano de Derecho Internacional (IHLADI).
As a lawyer, he joined the Chilean Society of International Law and the Chilean Society of Political Science. He has also been a researcher at the Instituto Chileno de Estudios Humanísticos (ICHEH) and the Corporación de Estudios del Desarrollo (CED). Between 1986 and 1990 he served as general manager of AFP Magíster S.A.[2]
Political career
He worked as an external lawyer for the Vicaría de la Solidaridad and was a member of the International Affairs Department of the Chilean Human Rights Commission.[2]
He began his political career in the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), serving in various provincial and national leadership roles.[2]
On 11 March 1990 he was appointed Undersecretary General of Government, serving until 1 July 1997 during the administrations of Patricio Aylwin and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle.[2]
In 1997 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for District No. 30 (Buin, Calera de Tango, Paine, and San Bernardo) in the Metropolitan Region, serving from 1998 to 2002, and was re-elected for the 2002–2006 term.[2] He was not re-elected in 2005.
On 11 March 2006, President Michelle Bachelet appointed him Undersecretary General of the Presidency, a position he held until 11 March 2010.[2] In 2010 he joined the Presidential Advisory Commission on the Qualification of the Detained Disappeared, Political Executed, and Victims of Political Imprisonment and Torture.
On 11 March 2014, during Bachelet’s second administration, he assumed office as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, serving until 11 March 2018.[2]