Gonzalo Fernando Blumel Mac-Iver (born 17 May 1978) is a Chilean politician, civil environmental engineer and economist who served as Minister of the Interior and Public Security of Chile during Sebastián Piñera second government (2018–2022).

Biography

He is the son of Juan Enrique Blumel Méndez – grandson of the German explorer Santiago Blümel and Rosa Ancán, daughter of a Mapuche lonko from Nueva Imperial – and Emma Francisca Mac-Iver Prieto, great-granddaughter of

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(politician of Radical Party of Chile's liberal faction) and of Emma Ovalle Gutiérrez, granddaughter of Chilean President

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(1830–1831).

Political career

He began his career in 2001 as a researcher at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Center for the Environment of the Department of Industrial Engineering. In 2005, he assumed as planning secretary of the Municipality of Futrono. Later, he worked as a researcher for the environment program of Libertad y Desarrollo, right–wing think tank linked with

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ideas then represented by the party Independent Democratic Union (known in Spanish for his acronym: «UDI»), organization promoted by Augusto Pinochet dictatorship through his ideologist: the lawyer

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(UDI founder). He performed in three charges during President Piñera's first government, being – from March to July 2010 – Staff Chief of

Cristián Larroulet Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau (born 1953 in Temuco) was the Minister General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile under President Sebastián Piñera. He currently serves as the Head of Advisors to the Presidency of the Republic in the se ...

(UDI), General Secretariat of the Presidency. Later, he was head of Studies Division in the same ministry and, finally, in March 2013, he became the president's chief adviser. Once finished Piñera's first government, he was the CEO of Avanza Chile Foundation as well as he taught lessons also at PUC, his alma mater, or Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD). In 2016, he was one of founding member of the party Political Evolution, known in Chile for its acronym «Evópoli». When Piñera returned to the presidency in 2018, Blumel was appointed as Minister Secretary General, the same charge where he collaborated with Larroulet. He served there until 28 October 2019, when he was called by Piñera to take the Ministry of the Interior charge amid 2019–20 riots in Chile commonly known as Estallido Social de Chile.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blumel, Gonzalo 1978 births Living people Alumni of the University of Birmingham Chilean civil engineers Chilean people of German descent Chilean people of British descent Chilean people of Mapuche descent Environmental engineers Evópoli politicians Politicians from Santiago People from Talca Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Chilean Ministers of the Interior