Pablo Pérez Zañartu

Pablo Pérez Zañartu (30 April 1915 – 28 November 1987) was a Chilean professor, engineer, and businessman. He served as a Minister of State under President Jorge Alessandri.

Early life Pérez was the son of Osvaldo Pérez Valdés and Marta Luisa Zañartu Íñiguez. He studied at the San Ignacio School in Santiago and later at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile, where he qualified as a teacher in 1937. Two years later, at the same university, he obtained the degree of civil engineer.

Private and public life In 1940, Pérez traveled to the United States, where he worked as an engineer for companies in New York (W. R. Grace & Co.) and later in Pennsylvania (Morgan Smith). He subsequently joined the state-owned Corporation for the Promotion of Production (Corfo), where he entered as deputy head of the Electrical Engineering Division.

Later, at Endesa, a subsidiary of Corfo, he rose to become head of the Export Department and later deputy export manager.

He was also an academic at the School of Arts and Crafts and at the University of Chile.

Death Pérez died in Santiago at the age of 72. He is regarded as the patriarch of what is now known as the Pérez Cruz group, with investments ranging from real estate and events to livestock and wine production, as well as gas distribution through .