Jorge Máximo Arturo Pacheco Matte (born 12 February 1953) is a
Chilean economist and
politician. He served as minister of
Michelle Bachelet's second government (2014−2018), specifically in
Energy.
Early life
Born in the capital city
Santiago de Chile, Pacheco is the son of
Christian-democratic politician,
Máximo Pacheco Gómez
Máximo Pacheco Gómez (born 26 October 1924−5 May 2012) was a Chilean politician.
He is father of Máximo Pacheco Matte.
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BCN Profile
1924 births
2012 deaths
University of Chile alumni
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He attended
Saint George's College, school located in
Las Condes
Las Condes is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The area is inhabited primarily by upper-mid- to high income families, and known in the Chilean collective consciousness as home to the country's economi ...
. He studied at
University of Chile, earning a
Bachelor of Arts in
business administration
Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...
. He finished in 1976 with the specialty of
business manager. He continued there and completed a
MBA with a mention in economics.
He married designer Soledad Flanagan, with whom he fathered four daughters.
Career
At university Pacheco was a member of the
Popular Unitary Action Movement (MAPU), a
Christian socialist political movement ally of socialist
president Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. After the
1973 coup d'état and the
military dictatorship
A military dictatorship is a dictatorship in which the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority, and the dictator is often a high-ranked military officer.
The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the m ...
, he joined the
Socialist Party.
In the late 1990s and 2000s, he was a close collaborator of the presidential campaigns of
Ricardo Lagos (1999−00), and
Michelle Bachelet (2005−06). However, during those governments, he worked for
American
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** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
pulp and paper company
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Manufacturing process
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International Paper (2000−2012).
Pacheco returned to
Chile in 2013 after leaving the business world. He helped Bachelet in her campaign for the
general election
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s. Once re-elected, she appointed him as Minister of Energy in January; he took office on 11 March 2014.
On 19 October 2016, Pacheco resigned from the ministry to become the generalissimo of Lagos' presidential pre-candidacy.
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1953 births
Living people
University of Chile alumni
20th-century Chilean politicians
21st-century Chilean politicians
Socialist Party of Chile politicians