Luz del Carmen Zasso Paoa (born 16 May 1972) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an engineer and politician of Rapa Nui descent, serving as the mayor of

Easter Island Easter Island ( rap, Rapa Nui; es, Isla de Pascua) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is most famous for its nearl ...

between 2008 and 2012. Luz Zasso was born in

to parents Ambrosio Guillermo Zasso Leiva and María Raquel Paoa Huki. She received a degree in Construction engineering from the University of Viña del Mar. Since 2015, she has served as the General Manager of Sasipa, the company that distributes electricity to the island.Luz Zasso Paoa: “En las empresas hay que demostrar que las mujeres podemos estar a cargo”

References

Living people Women mayors of places in Chile Chilean engineers Rapa Nui politicians Easter Island people 1972 births {{Chile-politician-stub