Tomás Flores

Tomás Osvaldo Flores Jaña (; April 22, 1965 – July 9, 2025) was a Chilean economist, academic and politician who was a member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI). He was Undersecretary of Economy in the first government of Sebastián Piñera (2010–2014). Until his death, he served as senior economist at the Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo (LyD).

Life and career Flores studied at the Instituto O'Higgins de Rancagua and later pursued a degree in commercial engineering with a major in economics at the University of Chile. He held a master's degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He was married to Perla Castillo Olguín and had three children.

Flores worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Chile, researcher at the Chilean Copper Commission, and head of the Coordination Department of the Budget Directorate of the Ministry of Finance.