Marcelo Tokman

Marcelo Tokman Ramos (born 8 June 1967) is a Chilean economist who served as minister during the first government of Michelle Bachelet (2006–2010).

Biography He was born in England while his father, Víctor Edgardo Tokman Sapovsky, an Argentine-born Jewish economist who would later serve as an adviser to former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, was pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Oxford.

He has published numerous academic articles, including contributions to the Center for Public Studies (CEP), Fundación Expansiva, the Revista Economía Chilena of the Central Bank of Chile, and the OECD's Journal on Budgeting.

His tenure in government was marked by the energy crisis caused by reduced natural gas supplies from Argentina, below-average rainfall, and the sharp increase in international petroleum prices, particularly through mid-2008. In response, the ministry implemented an ambitious national energy-saving program, which enabled the country to avoid residential electricity rationing of the kind experienced during a similar crisis in the late 1990s.

In 2013, he joined the policy team of independent presidential pre-candidate Andrés Velasco, who had previously served as Minister of Finance under Michelle Bachelet.

In 2014, he was appointed by President Michelle Bachelet as Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned ENAP during her second administration.