María Pardo Vergara

María Pardo Vergara (born 3 June 1988) is a Chilean lawyer who is a member of the Constitutional Council of Chile.

She has worked as a professor at various universities in the Valparaíso Region, including her alma mater or the Playa Ancha University.

Biography Born on 3 July 1988 in Viña del Mar. She is the daughter of Guillermo Pardo Novoa and María Vergara Berríos. Pardo completed her primary and secondary education at St Margaret's School, from which she graduated in 2006. Then, Pardo joined the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV), where she studied law. She graduated in 2012, swearing in as a lawyer on March 13, 2015.

In March 2023, she obtained a Ph.D. at her same alma mater. Similarly, in the context of her doctoral studies, she carried out research internships at the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England, as well as at the Legal Theory Group at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

Professional career Pardo has worked as a lecturer at several universities in the Valparaíso Region, including his alma mater and the University of Playa Ancha. She also has been a professor at the Catholic University of the North (Coquimbo campus), where she has taught courses in Political Law, Constitutional Law, and Gender Perspectives.

Her academic research interests include Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Legal and Political Philosophy, and critical approaches to law, particularly feminist legal perspectives.

Political career She was a member of Convergencia Social (CS).

In the elections held on 7 May 2023, she ran as a candidate for the Constitutional Council representing the 6th electoral district of the Valparaíso Region, as a member of Convergencia Social within the Unidad para Chile electoral pact. According to the Electoral Qualification Court (TRICEL), she was elected with 108,843 votes.