Luis Mackenna Shiell

Luis Mackenna Shiell was a Chilean lawyer, businessman, and politician. He served as a minister during the administration of Jorge Alessandri, as well as president of the Central Bank of Chile.

Early life

Mackenna was the son of Luis Mackenna Ovalle and Blanca Shiell Walker. He studied at the German Lyceum of Santiago and later pursued law at the University of Chile. He also undertook advanced studies at Princeton University in the United States.
In 1954, he married Isabel Jordan García-Huidobro, with whom he had five children.

Public life

He worked as a lawyer at the Central Bank of Chile until 1946 and later served as its president between 1962 and 1964.
He was Minister of Finance from 1961 to 1964, that is, until the end of the government of President Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez.
In 1989, his name was mentioned as a possible designated senator by General Augusto Pinochet, as a former minister of State.
For more than thirty years, he served as president of the mining company Mantos Blancos.