Ximena Ossandón
Chilean politician
María Ximena Ossandón Irarrázabal (born 13 December 1963) is a Chilean teacher, businesswoman, and politician currently serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, representing District 12, which includes La Florida, Puente Alto, Pirque, La Pintana, and San José de Maipo.
A member of Renovación Nacional (RN), she is noted for her focus on public service, early childhood development, and community-based social equity, alongside her alignment with socially conservative values. Her political trajectory has developed alongside a prominent family network, being sister of senator Manuel José Ossandón and mother of Puente Alto councillor Bernardita Paul Ossandón.
Her parliamentary work has focused on security, drug policy, women’s equity, and institutional reform. She has held high-profile positions in committees, taken controversial positions within her party, and become one of the most visible conservative female figures in Chilean politics.
Biography
Ossandón was born in Viña del Mar into a traditional and conservative Catholic family. She is the daughter of Roberto Ossandón Valdés and Ximena Irarrázabal Correa. Raised with her siblings Roberto, Rafael, Ignacio, Manuel José and Olga, she spent her early years in a rural property in Pirque before the family relocated to an apartment in Santiago.
She studied at Colegio Los Andes, a girls' school linked to Opus Dei, and later earned a degree in English pedagogy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. From 2007 to 2009, she completed an Executive MBA at ESE Business School, part of the University of the Andes.
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