Verónica Undurraga

Verónica Undurraga Valdés (born 5 October 1967) is a Chilean lawyer and university professor. From March to November 2023, she served as a member and president of the Expert Commission, the body in charge of drafting a preliminary constitutional text later discussed by the Constitutional Council, within the framework of the 2023 Chilean constitutional process.

Biography

Early life and education She was born in Santiago in 1967, the daughter of lawyer Claudio Undurraga Abbott (1940–2022), co-founder of Prieto Abogados, and essayist Adriana Valdés, the first woman elected as director of the Chilean Academy of Language and of the Institute of Chile.

She studied law at the University of Chile, earning her bachelor’s degree in legal and social sciences in 1990 and qualifying as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of Chile in 1996.

In 1995, she obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Columbia University. In 2001 she completed a diploma in modern institutions of family law at the University of Chile.

On 6 March 2023, at the installation of the Expert Commission, she was unanimously elected its president, alongside Sebastián Soto as vice president.

Works Aborto y protección del que está por nacer en la Constitución chilena (2013)