Orlando Poblete

Orlando Poblete Iturrate (born 7 January 1955) is a Chilean lawyer and academic who served as Minister Secretary-General of Government between 1987 and 1988.

He later became Rector of the University of the Andes, Chile, a position he held from 2004 to 2014.

Early life and education Poblete earned his law degree at the University of Chile in 1978.

He later taught procedural law at several Chilean universities, including the University of Chile, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and the University of the Andes, Chile. In 1984 he co-founded the Chilean Institute of Procedural Law (Instituto Chileno de Derecho Procesal).

Academic career In 1996 he became dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Andes. On 10 March 2004, he was appointed rector of the same university, succeeding Óscar Cristi Marfil.

He held the post for ten years, stepping down on 21 January 2014, when José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat was elected as the new rector.