Alberto Undurraga
Chilean politician
Alberto Undurraga Vicuña (born 17 June 1969) is a Chilean politician and economist currently serving as the president of the Christian Democratic Party.
Biography
Undurraga was born in Santiago on 17 June 1969. He is the son of Alberto Undurraga Undurraga and Ana Elvira Vicuña Baeza. He is married to María Paulina Flotts de los Hoyos and is the father of two children.
He completed his primary and secondary education at Colegio San Ignacio between 1975 and 1986. Between 1987 and 1992, he studied Commercial Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC).
From 1997 to 1998, he completed a Master’s degree in Applied Economics at the University of Michigan in the United States.
In his professional career, he served as Commercial Manager of the Microenterprise Program at Banco del Desarrollo between 1994 and 1995. He later served as General Manager of Bandesarrollo Microempresas S.A. until 1997. Between 1999 and 2000, he was Director of the Commercial Engineering program at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado and a faculty member at the Universidad Central de Chile.
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