Juan Carlos Jobet

Juan Carlos Jobet Eluchans is a Chilean politician and former member of Renovación Nacional.[1]

Between 2013 and 2014, he served as Minister of Labor and Social Security during President Sebastián Piñera's first government. On 13 June 2019, he was appointed Minister of Energy during Piñera's second government.

He studied commercial engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has a master's degree in Business Administration and Public Administration from Harvard University.[2] Between 2000 and 2010 he worked at the company Asset.[3]

He entered politics with his incorporation into the organization Independientes en Red, created by Cristina Bitar. Later, he was founder, along with Felipe Kast, of a think tank called Horizontal.[2] Then, in 2010 he joined to political party Renovación Nacional.[4] At Sebastián Piñera's first government beginning, he assumed as Chief of Staff of then Minister of the Interior Rodrigo Hinzpeter. On 29 July 2011, he was appointed Undersecretary of Housing.[4] He worked there until 12 November 2012.[5] On 24 July 2013, he assumed as Minister of Labor and Social Security of Chile following Evelyn Matthei (UDI) resignation. He remained in the charge until the end of Piñera's government. On 13 June 2019, he was appointed Minister of Energy during Piñera's second government. He replaced Susana Jiménez.[1]

Personal life

He is son of Juan Carlos Jobet Sotomayor and the journalist Celia Eluchans.[4] He is also a nephew of Edmundo Eluchans Urenda. In 2004 he married the historian Luz María Díaz de Valdés Herrera, daughter of the lawyer and former Club Deportivo Universidad Católica's president Manuel Díaz de Valdés. He had two daughters with her.[6]

References
  1. "El regreso de Juan Carlos Jobet". La Tercera. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  2. "Juan Carlos Jobet". poderopedia.org. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  3. "Juan Carlos Jobet". assetchile.com. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  4. "Juan Carlos Jobet, el brazo derecho de Hinzpeter". El Dinamo. 2 February 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  5. "Francisco Irarrázaval es el nuevo subsecretario de Vivienda y Urbanismo". Emol. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  6. "Las redes del ministro que no pudo con los basureros". Publimetro. 1 August 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
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