Julio Chaná

Julio Chaná Cariola (Santiago, 1 May 1909 – Santiago, 11 August 1995) was a Chilean lawyer, academic, and business association leader. He served as a Minister of State in the portfolio of Mining during the administration of President Jorge Alessandri.

Biography Chaná was the son of Julio Chaná Reclus and Ana Cariola Villagrán. His brother Pedro served as Ambassador of Chile to Portugal between 1962 and 1965.

He studied at the Colegio San Pedro Nolasco in Santiago and later law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), obtaining his law degree in 1931. He subsequently taught commercial law to both law and economics students. He was also president of the Legal Academy and was awarded an honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) by the same institution.

In the early 1960s, he served for five months as Minister of Mining by appointment of President Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez.

In his role as a business association leader, he served as president of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce between 1980 and 1985, and as president of the National Chamber of Commerce between 1985 and 1986.