Hernan Larrain Matte

Hernán Larraín Matte (born 24 December 1974) is a Chilean lawyer and politician involved in centre-right politics. Larraín is an adjunct professor at the Adolfo Ibáñez University and during Sebastián Piñera's first government (2010–2014) he was presidential advisor. Then, he presided political party Evópoli (2018–2020).

He studied laws at Finis Terrae University (1993–1999) and after obtaining his Bachelor of Laws, he decided to study a master's degree in Political Sciences in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC; 2000–2001). Years later, he completed his M.Sc. in public policies at England's London School of Economics (LSE).

Biography Born in 1974, he is the eldest son of Hernan Larraín and Magdalena Matte, politicians whose families have had a vast trajectory both into the Chilean elite and that country's right–wing. Likewise, Hernán is brother of the filmmakers Pablo Larraín that lost (15%) against Piñera (58%) and Manuel José Ossandón (26%). Months later, he participated in the campaign of Piñera during the presidential elections which he won.

On May 5, 2018, Larraín was elected president of Evópoli in the party's internal elections. On July 19, 2020, in the midst of Chile Vamos crisis (after 2019–20 Social Outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic), he formalized his resignation as president of the organization.

In 2021, he was registered as a candidate for the Constitutional Convention by District 11 (Las Condes, Vitacura, Lo Barnechea, La Reina y Peñalolén), and then won a seat into the Constitutional Convention that drafted a new constitution proposal for Chile.

On 4 July 2021, Larrain was invested as constituent. On 12 April 22, he assumed as adjunct vice president of the convention.

In May 2025, Hernán Larraín Matte launched The Liberal Right Does Exist. The book is a first-person account of a collective effort to expand the boundaries of the Chilean right, leaving behind the dictatorship and consolidating a project committed to individual freedoms, diversity, market competition, and gradual reformism.