Nationality Chilean Name Camila Merino | Religion Roman Catholicism Spouse(s) Enrique Elsaca Hirmas | |
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Preceded by Claudia Serrano Madrid
Succeeded by Evelyn Matthei Alma mater Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
MIT Sloan School of Management Occupation Civil engineer; Politician. Education Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
Political party Independent politician | ||
Camila Merino Catalán is a civil engineer and former Minister of Labor and Social Welfare for Chile.
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Early life
Merino completed her studies in Colegio Alianza Francesa in Concepción, Chile. She completed her university studies in Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and majored in Industrial Civil Engineering. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.' She also completed studies at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. She is married to Enrique Elsaca Hirmas, Vice-President of Services and Operations of LAN Airlines.
Career
In 1991 she began working as an executive for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), where she remained for the next 16 years. Amongst her positions, she was Vice-president of Administration Manager of Corporate Services, Human Resources and Mining. For her functions in the mining company, she worked for several years in Antofagasta, where she was director of the Association of Local Industries. The headhunter Humanitas selected her as a candidate for General Manager of Santiago Metro in December 2007, position which she accepted. She worked on a project—which had not had a manager for over a year—with a budget of nearly 1 billion USD to extend lines 1 and 5 of the subway. She is currently Vice-president of Human Resources and Safety in Arauco, one of the world's leading Pulp and Wood manufacturing industries.
Politics
In February 2010, she was nominated by Chile’s President-elect Sebastián Piñera as Minister of Labor and Social Forecast.