Luis Mackenna Shiell

Luis Mackenna Shiell (Santiago, 10 September 1916 – Santiago, 8 May 2001) was a Chilean lawyer, businessman, and politician. He served as a minister during the administration of Jorge Alessandri, as well as president of the Central Bank of Chile.

Early life Mackenna was the son of Luis Mackenna Ovalle and Blanca Shiell Walker. He studied at the German Lyceum of Santiago and later pursued law at the University of Chile. He also undertook advanced studies at Princeton University in the United States.

In 1954, he married Isabel Jordan García-Huidobro, with whom he had five children.

In 1989, his name was mentioned as a possible designated senator by General Augusto Pinochet, as a former minister of State.

For more than thirty years, he served as president of the mining company Mantos Blancos.