Óscar Landerretche Gacitúa

Óscar Alfredo Landerretche Gacitúa (born 18 October 1949) is a Chilean politician who served as minister of State. Similarly, he was president of the board of the Chilean state owned-company Codelco.

Biography His father was an officer in the Carabineros de Chile, and his mother was a teacher at the Liceo Nº 1 de Niñas in Valparaíso. He is of Basque descent on both his paternal and maternal sides.

He attended the Liceo Eduardo de la Barra in Valparaíso. He earned a degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Chile. He later obtained a master's degree in economics from the University of the Andes in Bogotá and a doctorate in political economy from the University of Oxford in England.

He is married to Trini Moreno and is the father of economist Óscar Landerretche Moreno.

Political career In his youth, he joined the Socialist Party of Chile (PS). In 1971, he received military and intelligence training in Cuba. Following the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in September 1973, he participated in the reorganization of the Socialist Party. The party's first Central Committee plenary meeting after the coup was held in October 1973 at his home in the Villa Aurora neighborhood of Santiago. vice chairman of the board of the National Petroleum Company (ENAP), chairman of the board of SERCOTEC, Executive Vice President of the National Mining Company (ENAMI), and a state-appointed member of the board of the Quebrada Blanca mining company.

He has served as an academic at the Graduate School of the Institute of Public Affairs, University of Chile, now the University's Faculty of Government. He has also been director of the institute's graduate school, an MBA lecturer at the Federico Santa María Technical University, a visiting professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Talca, and a lecturer at the School of Government and Public Management of the University of Chile.