Orlando Poblete Iturrate
Orlando Poblete Iturrate is a Chilean lawyer and academic who served as Minister Secretary-General of Government between 1987 and 1988.
He later became Rector of the University of the Andes, Chile, a position he held from 2004 to 2014.
Early life and education
Poblete earned his law degree at the University of Chile in 1978.He later taught procedural law at several Chilean universities, including the University of Chile, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and the University of the Andes, Chile. In 1984 he co-founded the Chilean Institute of Procedural Law.
He married María Olga Ortúzar Feliú, with whom he has three children.
Political career
Between 1979 and 1987 Poblete served as an adviser to the Office of the Presidency. On 11 July 1987, President Augusto Pinochet appointed him Minister Secretary-General of Government, a post he held until 21 October 1988.Academic career
In 1996 he became dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Andes. On 10 March 2004, he was appointed rector of the same university, succeeding Óscar Cristi Marfil.He held the post for ten years, stepping down on 21 January 2014, when José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat was elected as the new rector.