Sebastián Sichel

Sebastián Iglesias Sichel Ramírez (born July 30, 1977 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean politician, lawyer, and the current president of the Banco del Estado de Chile.[1] He previously served as Minister of Social Development and Family and former Executive Vice President of Corfo, under the second government of Sebastián Piñera.[2]

Sebastián Sichel Ramírez
Sebastián Sichel Ramírez, 2019
PresidentSebastián Piñera Echenique
Succeeded byCristián Monckeberg Bruner
Succeeded byPablo Terrazas Lagos
Personal details
NationalityChilean
Political partyChristian Democratic Party (1990–2015)
Citizens (Chilean political party) (2015–2018)
Independent candidate (2018–present)
ResidenceLas Condes, Chile
OccupationLawyer, politician

Biography

His parents are Antonio Alejandro José Sichel Poblete and Ana María Ramírez Alvarado.

He studied at the Alexander Fleming Lyceum. Subsequently, he has a law degree at the Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUC) where he also obtained his master's degree in public law.[3][4] Sichel Ramírez was a professor of constitutional law at the San Sebastián University from 2016 to 2018.

In 2008, he married the journalist Bárbara Encina. They have three children.

Political career

In the 2013 parliamentary elections, he ran for the position of deputy for the districts of Las Condes, Vitacura and Lo BarnecheaHis race was supported by the Public Force movement.[5] The party later became the Ciudadanos party, which was founded by former minister of Michelle Bachelet and Andrés Velasco.

In a controversial move, he resigned from the Christian Democratic Party in 2015, distancing himself from emblematic figures such as Claudio Orrego, with whom he worked on his presidential candidacy in 2012.[6] Even in 2014 he was on the verge of be a presidential candidate for that political bloc.[7]

On November 19, 2017, he decided to publicly support Sebastián Piñera, distancing himself from Andrés Velasco.

He assumed as executive vice president of Corfo during the second government of Sebastián Piñera[8] from May 2, 2018,[9] becoming the first member of the Ciudadanos party to hold public office, taking command of the lithium exploitation contracts signed by his predecessor. Eduardo Bitran, with the company SQM.[10][11][12]

On June 13, 2019, he assumed as Minister of Social Development and Family, after the cabinet change announced by President Sebastián Piñera.[13]

After the crisis experienced in Citizens party during the election of its leadership, Ramirez resigned from the party and was one of the founders of the 'Free' political movement in March 2019, led by ex-militants of the party led by Andrés Velasco.[14]

He remained in the position of Minister of Social Development and Family until June 4, 2020, when he was reassigned by Piñera as president of the State Bank.

Controversies

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and the high level of unemployment in the country, on May 18, 2020, President Sebastián Piñera announced from inside La Moneda about the delivery of a family basket in aid for the entire middle class. Ramirez in his position as head of MINDES, had to publicly correct the president's announcement, maintaining that the "percentage of the population benefited" will only have a scope for "70% of the most vulnerable 40%".

On June 4, 2020, President Piñera announced a cabinet reshuffle amid the growing coronavirus cases in Chile.

The former minister Cristián Monckeberg will preside over the Ministry of Social Development and Family where he will replace Ramirez, who currently presides over the BancoEstado (State Bank).[15]

References
  1. "Home". www.corporativo.bancoestado.cl. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  2. "Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y Familia". Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y Familia (in Spanish). Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  3. "Sebastián Sichel Ramírez – Foro de Economía Circular". Foro Economía Circular (in Spanish). Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  4. "Exalumno Derecho UC Sebastián Sichel liderará el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y Familia". derecho.uc.cl. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  5. "El candidato a diputado por Las Condes que vivió en campamentos hippies y nunca vio tele cuando niño". El Mostrador. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  6. ""Tarde o temprano vamos a ser socios con evópoli" – Revista Qué Pasa". Revista Qué Pasa (in Spanish). July 14, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  7. "Movimiento "Ciudadanos" presenta a Sebastián Sichel como posible candidato presidencial". BioBioChile. November 19, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  8. S.A.P., El Mercurio (April 24, 2018). "Gobierno nombra a Sebastián Sichel como nuevo vicepresidente ejecutivo de Corfo | Emol.com". Emol. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  9. "Vicepresidente ejecutivo de Corfo, Sebastián Sichel: "Una de las promesas de la Corfo es que no pedirá aumento de recursos el próximo año"". La Tercera. July 16, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  10. "Sichel creará comisión especial en Corfo para evitar conflictos de interés en temas de litio – PULSO". Pulso. May 6, 2018. Archived from the original on July 18, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  11. Leiva, Diego (June 6, 2018). "Sebastián Sichel: "Los términos del contrato (con SQM) es lo que acordó la Corfo anterior"". 24Horas.cl. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  12. "¿Es litio el nuevo cobre? Para Sebastián Sichel de la Corfo, "mirando números duros, no lo es"". Radio Concierto. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  13. Labarca, Daniel (June 13, 2019). "Los seis factores que incidieron en el cambio de gabinete". La Tercera. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  14. Arellano, Jorge (March 25, 2019). "Ex "Ciudadanos" se reagrupan en "Libres" y se reúnen hoy con el Presidente Piñera". La Tercera. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  15. Editor, Web (June 4, 2020). "President Piñera announces cabinet change amid COVID-19 outbreak". Chile News | Breaking News, Views, Analysis. Retrieved June 7, 2020.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
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