Alejandro Jadresic

Alejandro Jadresic Marinovic (6 June 1956 – 5 June 2019) was a Chilean industrial engineer, economist and an academic. He served as Minister of Energy (1994–1998) under the government of Eduardo Frei.

After completing his studies in the United States, Jadresic returned to Chile and began to make a living as a teacher. He also became politically active in campaigns that supported an end to the Pinochet regime, nevertheless he always remained an independent from the major anti-Pinochet political parties.

He was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences at the Adolfo Ibáñez University, he also was a board member of Entel (Chile's main telecommunications company) and director of Jadresic Consulting Ltd a business services firm.

Biography He attended the Liceo Arturo Alessandri Palma in Providencia, Santiago, and was admitted to the University of Chile after scoring 812 on the national Academic Aptitude Test (PAA), one of the highest scores in the country that year. He graduated with a degree in industrial engineering in 1981 and later earned a doctorate from Harvard University in the United States in 1984. In July 2004, he joined the Electricity Panel, the body responsible for resolving disputes among companies in the electricity sector. He resigned from the panel in mid-2007, despite having been appointed to a six-year term.

He served on the boards of several companies and was a member of the government commission that studied the feasibility of developing nuclear power in Chile.

From 2006 to 2018, he was dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences at the Adolfo Ibáñez University. During his tenure, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Global Engineering Deans Council, an international network of engineering deans.

Awards Jadresic was awarded the Best Engineer Award 2005 from the School of Engineers of Chile and the Order of Prince Trpimir from the Republic of Croatia.