Pilar Armanet

María Pilar Armanet Armanet (born 4 February 1950) is a Chilean politician and lawyer who served as Minister Secretary-General of Government during the first government of Michelle Bachelet (2006–2010).

She was the head of the University of the Americas.

Family and education She is the daughter of farmer and Liberal Party member Agustín Armanet Besa and María Armanet Izquierdo. She is married to fellow farmer Rafael José Astaburuaga Gutiérrez, with whom she has three children: Rafael, Andrés, and Rodrigo. During those years, she was a member of the National Party (PN). Armanet had served, since April 2006, as Chilean ambassador to France. In April 2014, she assumed the rectorship of the institution.

She has served as an associate justice of the Santiago Court of Appeals, vice president of the Chilean Committee for Economic Cooperation in the Pacific Basin, and a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In October 2013, she was one of the founding members of the political movement Fuerza Pública, led by economist Andrés Velasco.