Eduardo Lagos Herrera

Eduardo Lagos Herrera (born 17 January 1967) is a Chilean politician who served as a parliamentarian from 2002 to 2003.

Biography He was born in Santiago on 17 January 1967. He is the son of Carlos Lagos Reyes and Saida Herrera Cofré. He is single and has two daughters.

He completed his primary education at Escuela Palestina in Santiago and his secondary education at the Instituto Nacional and Escuela Pedro Aguirre Cerda in Santiago. He later enrolled at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, where he obtained a degree in Economics and subsequently a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Ortega y Gasset Institute of the same university.

In 2004 he began studying Law at UNIACC University, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws degree. He was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court on 2 May 2012.

Political career He began his political career at the age of 17 upon joining the youth wing of the Radical Party. In 1990 he served as national vice-president of the Radical Youth, and in 1991 he was in charge of international relations for the party, participating in meetings of the International Union of Socialist Youth.

In 1992 he was involved in the presidential campaign of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. In 1994 he served as adviser to the Undersecretary of Social Security, Patricio Tombolini, and between 1994 and 1998 he was Civil and Economic Attaché at the Embassy of Chile in Spain.

From October 1998 to March 2000 he was chief of staff to the Intendant of the Metropolitan Region, Ernesto Velasco, and in 1998 he coordinated the Metropolitan Region for the campaign of Ricardo Lagos during the Concertación primaries, representing the Radical Social Democratic Party. Beginning in 2000, he served as National Electoral Secretary and member of the party’s National Executive Committee.

In the December 2001 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for District No. 57 (Puerto Montt, Cochamó, Calbuco, and Maullín) in the Los Lagos Region, serving from 2002 to 2006.

On 9 July 2003, he was stripped of parliamentary immunity in connection with charges related to the misuse of a public instrument in the so-called "coimas" case. He was later acquitted by the Court of Appeals of Rancagua in 2004.