Genaro Arriagada

Genaro Luis Arriagada Herrera (born 26 January 1943) is a Chilean politician who served as minister.

In December 2021, after 58 years of militance, he resigned to the Christian Democracy.

Biography Arriagada attended the Internado Nacional Barros Arana before studying law at the University of Chile, graduating in 1965. He later pursued further studies at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.

Political career Arriagada joined the Radical Party in 1958 and remained a member until 1961, when the party entered the government of President Jorge Alessandri. In 1963, despite being an agnostic, he joined the Christian Democratic Party, remaining a member until announcing his resignation in 2021.

He participated in Radomiro Tomic's 1970 presidential campaign.

He also worked on Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle's 1993 presidential campaign, coordinating the preparation of the candidate's government program. as presidential representative and coordinator of the National Commission on Public Ethics in 1994, as ambassador-at-large responsible for negotiating and coordinating preparations for the 2nd Summit of the Americas held in Santiago in 1998, and as special envoy to the hemisphere's heads of state in 1997. He later served as Ambassador of Chile to the United States from 1998 to 1999.

During the 1999–2000 Chilean presidential election, Arriagada managed the first-round presidential campaign of Ricardo Lagos, who narrowly led Joaquín Lavín in the initial vote. For the runoff campaign, he was succeeded by fellow Christian Democrat Soledad Alvear.

He has also served as a member of the board of BancoEstado (2000–2006) and as a researcher at CIEPLAN, ICHEH, FLACSO, SUR, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the Inter-American Development Bank.