Roberto Pizarro Hofer

Roberto Guillermo Pizarro Hofer (born 9 October 1944) is a Chilean politician who served as minister of State and as head of the Academy of Christian Humanism University. He also was head of the La Nación newspaper.

Biography He was the son of Óscar Pizarro Gutiérrez, who, together with Salvador Allende and Marmaduke Grove, co-founded the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) in 1933, and Inés Hofer Gladinier. In 1967, he married Alicia Gariazzo Gavilán, with whom he had two sons, Andrés and Rodrigo.

He taught at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Chile. During the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, he lived in Argentina, where he taught economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.

He also served as a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), specializing in development planning, and was a researcher at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

He returned to Chile in 1990 and served until 1992 as deputy director of Bilateral Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he participated in trade negotiations with Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina.

He was subsequently appointed Chilean ambassador to Ecuador.

From 1996 to 1998, he served as Minister of Planning and Cooperation under President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. He resigned because of policy differences with the Ministry of Finance.

In 2009, he joined the presidential campaign team of Jorge Arrate.

He has also served as a professor at the Andrés Bello Diplomatic Academy of Chile.