Ministry of Sport
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Jaime Pizarro Herrera
Jaime Pizarro Herrera is a physical education teacher, and was a professional soccer player and coach. He was selected for Chile’s national team in both youth and adult categories, where he participated in important tournaments in Latin America and throughout the world.
He has held various sports, executive and managerial positions in the public and private sphere, including technical coach of the Colo Colo and Universidad Católica soccer teams, and sports manager of the same clubs over different periods. He was also director of the National Sports Institute.
He was development manager and general manager of the Corporación Cultural y Deportiva La Araucana (La Araucana Cultural and Sports Corporation).
In the academic field, he has been professor and director of postgraduate courses in sports management and training at the AIEP Institute. In his last role, he worked at the Universidad Finis Terrae.
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Antonia Illanes Riquelme
Undersecretary Illanes received her law degree from the Universidad de Chile in 2009. She has a master’s degree in advanced law, specializing in international law, from the Universidad de Barcelona.
She worked as an attorney at the Twenty-second Civil Court House in Santiago. She also worked as a lawyer at the Corporación de Asistencia Judicial at the Centro de Atención Jurídico y Social of Lo Espejo.
She sponsored important labor cases by carrying out judicial strategies and labor lawsuits, litigating in the Courts of Appeals in the Metropolitan Region and in the Supreme Court of Justice.
She has vast experience in public administration. Until 2018, she participated in the legal division of the then National Council of Culture and the Arts (CNCA).
Additionally, she was an attorney for the Second Electoral Court in the Metropolitan Region.
From 2018 until March 10, 2022, she served as chief of staff of the deputy of President Gabriel Boric, leading the team and developing her role in the Magallanes Region and in the National Congress.
Since 1986 she has practiced classical ballet. She is mother to Leonor.