Álvaro Rojas

Álvaro Manuel Rojas Marín (born 9 May 1953) is a Chilean politician, diplomat and academic who served as the Minister of Agriculture from 2006 to 2008.

Biography He is the son of Manuel Rojas Acevedo and Marta Marín. He graduated from the German School of Santiago and later studied veterinary medicine at the University of Chile. Between 1972 and 1974, representing his political party, he served as president of the student association of his degree program.

He taught macroeconomics, rural development, and agricultural economics at the same university and at other higher education institutions. He later obtained a doctorate in agricultural sciences from LMU Munich, Germany.

He received scholarships from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and has served as a consultant to the ECLAC and the FAO. The election was decided in the first round on 23 March, with Rojas receiving 62% of the vote, and again for the 2014–2018 term. The election was decided in the first round on 19 March, with Rojas receiving 77% of the vote as the sole candidate.

He has been married since 1977 to educator Clara Victoria Henríquez de la Jara,