Alfredo Moreno

Alfredo Moreno Charme (born August 4, 1956) is a Chilean diplomat and politician.

Charme was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile under President Sebastián Piñera.

Biography Family He was born as one of the four children of the marriage between Alfredo Moreno Aguirre and Gloria Charme Montt, members of an influential family from Viña del Mar. Moreno Aguirre, one of the key executives in the early development of Coca-Cola in Chile, died of a heart attack in December 1970 at the age of 48, when Moreno Charme was still a teenager.

He is a cousin of Jorge Abbott, lawyer and National Prosecutor of Chile. He is also the great-grandson of politician, physician and minister Eduardo Charme Fernández.

Education He studied at Colegio San Ignacio El Bosque in Santiago, graduating in 1973 as the top student of his class. The three founded a consulting firm in Chile called Bilbao, Moreno y Pérez Asociados, which operated until 1986.

He later worked managing the communications division of the Cruzat Group, which included the magazines Ercilla, Vea and Deporte Total, as well as Radio Minería and Radio Galaxia.

In the mid-1980s, his entrepreneurial activity expanded through Editorial Santiago, a company he owned that, in addition to publishing books, developed a business model based on newspaper supplements and serialized publications. He later owned Telemercados Europa, a home grocery delivery company, and diversified into agriculture and horse breeding.

Banco de Chile On 15 April 1987, he joined the board of the Banco de Chile, following the restructuring process after the 1983 banking intervention and subsequent “popular capitalism” phase. as well as board member of Derco S.A. and construction firm Brotec S.A., also serving on subsidiaries in other South American countries.