Alejandro Jadresic

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Jadresic in 1996

Alejandro Jadresic Marinovic (6 June 1956 – 5 June 2019)

industrial engineer, economist and an academic. He served as Minister of Energy (1994–1998) under the government of Eduardo Frei.[2]

Education and career

Jadresic was the son of the psychiatrist, Víctor Jadresic Vargas and the academic Mimi Marinovic. He studied at the Liceum A-8 in

Santiago de Chile and was accepted into the University of Chile after getting one of the highest scores (812) in the Academic Aptitude Exam in the country. He graduated with a masters in Industrial Engineering from the University of Chile and subsequently continued his education at Harvard University
where he completed a Ph.D. in economics in 1984.

After completing his studies in the

independent
from the major anti-Pinochet political parties.

He was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences at the Adolfo Ibáñez University, he also was a board member of Entel (Chile's main telecommunications company) and director of Jadresic Consulting Ltd a business services firm.

Awards

Jadresic was awarded the Best Engineer Award 2005 from the School of Engineers of Chile and the Order of Prince Trpimir from the

Republic of Croatia
.

References

  1. ^ Falleció el exministro y actual presidente de la Fundación Chile, Alejandro Jadresic (in Spanish)
  2. ^ "Profesores". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-01-22.

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