Hernán Felipe Errázuriz

Hernán Felipe Errázuriz Correa (born 1945) is a Chilean lawyer, diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister Secretary General of Government and Minister of Mining under the military regime of Augusto Pinochet.

He was also president of the Central Bank of Chile (1983–1984) and Ambassador of Chile to the United States (1984–1988).

Early life and education Errázuriz was born in Santiago, the son of Hernán Errázuriz Hurtado and María Luisa Correa Guzmán,

Later career After leaving government, Errázuriz returned to the private sector, serving as director of companies such as Chilectra, Banco Security, Detroit Chile, and Chilena Consolidada Seguros. He also practiced law at Guerrero Olivos.

In the late 1990s, he was part of the legal team that defended former dictator Augusto Pinochet during his detention in London, sought by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón for human rights violations.

He has also been a member of the Foreign Policy Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an editorialist for El Mercurio, a counselor of the think tank Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo, and director of the Universidad Mayor. He is president of the Chilean Council for International Relations, succeeding his cousin and friend, former Senate president and foreign minister Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux.