Claudia Serrano

Claudia Inés Serrano Madrid (born 17 February 1957) is a Chilean politician and sociologist who served as minister during the first government of Michelle Bachelet (2006–2010).

She served as Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development (SUBDERE) from 2006 to 2008 during the first administration of President Michelle Bachelet. She subsequently served as Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, becoming the second woman to hold that office, from 2008 to 2010.

Family and education She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) and later obtained a master's degree in public management and public policy from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Chile. She also completed a doctorate in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

Her son, Miguel Crispi, from her first marriage to José Miguel Crispi, served as president of the PUC Student Federation (FEUC) in 2009.

She is married in her second marriage to fellow socialist Patricio Tapia Santibáñez, who served as general manager of the state-owned Correos de Chile between 2006 and 2010.

At the beginning of her professional career, in 1983, she worked as a researcher at the Corporation for Latin American Economic Research (CIEPLAN).

After leaving office with the end of the administration in March 2010, she was elected Executive Director of Rimisp – Latin American Center for Rural Development.

In March 2014, during the second Bachelet administration, she was appointed ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Among her notable publications are Decentralización. Nudos críticos (CIEPLAN–Asesorías para el Desarrollo, 2001); Políticas sociales, mujeres y Gobierno local (CIEPLAN, 1992); Participación social y ciudadanía, an internal working paper (MIDEPLAN, 1999); and Vivir la pobreza. Testimonios de mujeres (CIEPLAN, 1985).