Hernán de Solminihac

Hernán Eduardo de Solminihac Tampier (born 11 January 1958 ) is a Chilean engineer, academic, researcher, and consultant who served as a minister of state during the first administration of President Sebastián Piñera.

He has currently a professor and director of the Department of Construction Engineering and Management at his alma mater, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC). He has also served on the boards of Cruzados SADP, Codelco, and Canal del Fútbol (CDF).

Early life and education De Solminihac is of French descent. He completed his secondary education at The American School of Puerto Montt, the Alianza Francesa school in Osorno, and later at the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera in Santiago. Among his siblings is Patricio de Solminihac, a senior executive for several decades at Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM).

He graduated as a civil engineer in construction from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1982. De Solminihac later pursued graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States, earning a master's degree in 1986 and a doctorate in engineering sciences in 1992. In July 2011, he was appointed Minister of Mining, being replaced at the Ministry of Public Works by Laurence Golborne.

In October 2022, he was elected president of the Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile.