Claudio Alvarado
Claudio Alvarado | |
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Official portrait, 2018 | |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2026 | |
| President | José Antonio Kast |
| Preceded by | Álvaro Elizalde |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 4 August 2020 – 11 March 2022 | |
| Constituency | 13th District |
| Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency | |
| In office 4 June 2020 – 28 July 2020 | |
| President | Sebastián Piñera |
| Preceded by | Felipe Ward |
| Succeeded by | Cristián Monckeberg |
| Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development | |
| In office 4 November 2019 – 4 June 2020 | |
| President | Sebastián Piñera |
| Preceded by | Felipe Salaberry |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Masferrer |
| General Undersecretary of the Presidency | |
| In office 11 March 2010 – 11 March 2014 | |
| President | Sebastián Piñera |
| Preceded by | Edgardo Riveros Marín |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Silva Meléndez |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 1994 – 11 March 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Juan Alberto Pérez |
| Succeeded by | Alejandro Santana Tirachini |
| Constituency | 58th District |
| Mayor of Quemchi | |
| In office June 1985 – December 1986 | |
| Preceded by | Leopoldo Moya Bruce |
| Succeeded by | María Eugenia Acevedo Andrade |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 February 1960 |
| Party | UDI (since 2001) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (1980–2001) |
| Spouse | Ángela María Andrade Pérez |
| Children | 5 |
| Alma mater | Adolfo Ibáñez University |
| Occupation | Businessman • Politician |
Claudio Patricio Alvarado Andrade (born 7 February 1960) is a Chilean politician and business manager, member of the Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI). From June 2020 to July 2020, he served as Minister Secretary General of the Presidency.
In 1985, aged 25, Alvarado was appointed by Augusto Pinochet regime (1973–1990) as a mayor of Quemchi, a northwest commune in Chiloé Island. Then, in 1990s, he was elected deputy for the 58th District which groupes towns from Chiloé. In this position, he remained sixteen years (1994–2010) until 2009–10 general elections won by centre-right politician Sebastián Piñera, who appointed him as General Undersecretary of the Presidency, charge he held during all Piñera's first government (2010–2014).
In 2018, with Piñera's non-consecutive reelection, he was again named as general undersecretary (2018–2019), as Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development (2019–2020) and finally as Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency.