Catalina Salem

Catalina Salem Gesell (born 23 January 1986) is a Chilean lawyer, academic and politician, close to National Renewal.

She was a member of the Expert Commission created to draft a preliminary constitutional text during the 2023 Chilean constitutional process.

Biography She was born in Viña del Mar in 1986, the daughter of Karim Aziz Salem Menares and Victoria Inés Gesell Soto. On 5 December 2017, she married Nicolás Alejandro Enteiche Rosales.

She studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, graduating in 2011. She holds a Master’s degree in Constitutional Law, a Master’s in Legal Science, and is a PhD in Law at the same university.

Professional career She has been editor of the Constitutional Law area of the Revista de Derecho Aplicado and a member of the working group on constitutional proposals of the Justice Reform Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2020–2021).

She has served as a member of the Constitutional Advisory Council of Idea País (2021) and of the Board of Directors of the Chilean chapter of the International Society of Public Law.

She has been a professor at the University for Development (UDD), and Director of the Chilean Association of Constitutional Law. She currently teaches at the Center for Constitutional Justice of the University of Development. She has published academic works on constitutional law.

In January 2023, she was appointed by the Chamber of Deputies 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 chaired the Subcommission on Jurisdictional Function and Autonomous Bodies.