Catalina Lagos

Catalina Lagos Tschorne (born 3 December 1982) is a Chilean lawyer, academic and politician, affiliated with the Socialist Party of Chile.

She was a member of the Expert Commission created to draft a preliminary constitutional text during the 2023 Chilean constitutional process. In January 2024, she was appointed minister of the Constitutional Court of Chile.

Biography She was born in Santiago in 1982, the daughter of Pablo Lagos Puccio and Sonia Tschorne Berestesky, former bi-minister of Ricardo Lagos. She is married to Juan Cristóbal Moscoso Farías, with whom she has two children.

She studied law at Diego Portales University, graduating in January 2008. She completed a Diploma in Human Rights and Women at the University of Chile (2009) and a Diploma in Indigenous Rights, Environment, and Consultation Processes under ILO Convention 169 (2013).

In 2020, she obtained a Master of Law with a specialization in Public Law from the University of Chile.

Professional career From 2008 to 2011, Lagos worked as a lawyer in the Human Rights Program of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security. From 2011 to 2013, she was part of the legal team of Corporación Humanas, and, from 2013 to 2014, she worked as researcher and professor at the Human Rights Center of the University of Chile Law School, coordinating the Women and Gender Program.

From 2014 to 2016, she served as legislative advisor at the National Women’s Service. From 2016 to 2017, she was Executive Secretary of the Human Rights Program of the Ministry of the Interior. From 2017 to 2019, she worked as legislative advisor and head of the International Relations Department at the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality.

From 2019 to 2021, she coordinated the Unit for Specialized Investigations on Sexual Harassment, Workplace Harassment and Arbitrary Discrimination at the Legal Department of the University of Chile. From 2022 to 2023, she served as Legislative Coordinator of the Undersecretariat of the Interior.

She is professor of Constitutional Law at Diego Portales University and of Public Law at the Alberto Hurtado University. She has coordinated academic programs and postgraduate courses in several universities and has taught for the Judicial Academy and the Institute of Judicial Studies.

A member of the Socialist Party of Chile, from 2016 to 2021, she coordinated the Gender and Human Rights Programs at Instituto Igualdad.

Constitutional process In January 2023, she was appointed by the Senate of Chile as a member of the Expert Commission, established by Law No. 21.533, responsible for preparing a draft for a new Constitution to be submitted to the Constitutional Council. Within the commission, she joined the Subcommission on Principles, Civil and Political Rights.

She later joined the Mixed Commission tasked with resolving disputed norms in the draft Constitution.

On 10 January 2024, the Senate of Chile ratified her appointment as minister of the Constitutional Court of Chile.