CLAUDIO ORREGO

Governor, Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile
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Claudio Orrego has been governor of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago since March of 2014. Prior to his current position he was elected presidential candidate for the Christian Democrat party.

He has served in the national government as minister of  Housing and Urban Development and Public Property, and as head of the State Modernization Commission. In the private sector he was vice president of Sonda, position he left in 2004 to return to public service.

Orrego became a national figure during his eight year period as Mayor of the Municipality of Peñalolén when he was awarded twice as the best Mayor in Chile. He is well known among citizens for routinely biking or jogging to his office. During the Pinochet Dictatorship he held an active role as a Human Right´s activist (Nonviolent movement against torture) and as a national student leader.

Orrego is a lawyer from the Catholic University of Chile and holds a master degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government.