Enrique Correa Ríos

Enrique Fernando Correa Ríos (born 14 November 1945) is a Chilean politician who served as minister of State under Patricio Aylwin's government (1990–1994) and Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.

In Chile, Correa is well known for his lobbying activities with El Mostrador calling him "the king of lobby". He is the founder and owner of the lobbying company Imaginacción. cousin of Germán Correa, he attended a public school and later the Liceo de Hombres in his hometown. At the age of twelve he joined the Christian Democratic Youth (JDC) and later became a seminarian in Santiago. He subsequently joined the Popular Unitary Action Movement (MAPU),

After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet against the government of socialist president Salvador Allende, he sought asylum in the embassy of Peru and later travelled to the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic as a representative of the MAPU.

He lived underground during the dictatorship and, with the return to democracy, became one of the negotiators with Pinochetism. After leaving office in 1994, he founded a consultancy that later evolved into the lobbying firm Imaginacción Consultores. and was a member of the Commission on Historical Truth and New Deal with Indigenous Peoples, appointed by President Ricardo Lagos in 2001.

In July 2004 he resigned from the Socialist Party of Chile over disputes related to mining royalties. He requested readmission to the party in September 2009.

He is widely regarded as one of the country’s leading lobbyists. Through his firm Imaginacción, he has provided communications advice to figures such as Cristián Precht, former army commanders-in-chief Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba and Juan Emilio Cheyre, business groups Penta and SQM, former ministers Patricio Rosende and Javiera Blanco, film director Nicolás López and television director Herval Abreu.