Eduardo Bitran

Eduardo Nesim Bitran Colodro (born 3 August 1957) is a Chilean civil engineer and politician who served for the two governments of Michelle Bachelet.

Biography He attended Primary School No. 1 in Ovalle and later the Boys' High School of that city. He completed his secondary education at the Instituto Hebreo in Santiago, an institution serving the Jewish community.

He subsequently studied industrial engineering at the University of Chile and later pursued doctoral studies in economics at Boston University in the United States.

He assumed ministerial office in March 2006 and faced his first major challenge in mid-July of that year when severe storms in the Biobío Region caused widespread flooding and road closures. The most serious disruption affected the route connecting the communes of Lota and Arauco on the so-called Ruta de la Madera.

In April 2008, he returned to government service as president of the National Innovation Council for Competitiveness, succeeding former Finance Minister Nicolás Eyzaguirre. He left that position a few weeks after Sebastián Piñera assumed the presidency in 2010.

In March 2014, during the second administration of Michelle Bachelet, he became Executive Vice President of CORFO, serving until the end of the administration in March 2018.