Gonzalo Blumel Mac-Iver

Gonzalo Fernando Blumel Mac-Iver (born May 17, 1978 in Talca ) is a Chilean environmental engineer and politician. He was Chilean Minister of the Interior from October 2019 to July 2020. His political career began in 2005 when he was the secretary of the planning office in the municipality of Futrono. He then worked as a researcher on the Environment in the Think Tank Liberdad y Desarrollo. In the first Piñera cabinet, he held various management positions in the Secretaría General de la Presidencia.

Biography and education

Blumel is the son of Juan Enrique Blumel Méndez, a grandson of the German researcher Santiago Blümel and Rosa Ancán, a daughter of a Mapuchelonco from Nueva Imperial. His mother Emma Francisca Mac-Iver is the great-granddaughter of Enrique Mac-Iver, a politician of the Partido Radical .

He went to the Imaculada Concepción school in Vitacura and Sagrados Corazones in Manquehue. He then studied environmental engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago. In 2007 he began a master's degree in economics from Birmingham University , which he completed a year later.

Private

He has been married to the lawyer Paulina Larrea since October 16, 2004, with whom he has three children. He is musical, plays the guitar on family occasions and sings in a choir in a parish.

Web links

Gonzalo Blumel Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública (Spanish)

Individual evidence

↑ Lot 274 días de Gonzalo Blumel en Interior
↑ El Mercurio SAP: Tiene 41 años y es militante de Evópoli: La carrera de Blumel antes de llegar a ser ministro de Interior | Emol.com. October 28, 2019, Retrieved November 5, 2019 (Spanish).
^ Family tree of Gonzalo Fernando Blümel Mac-Iver. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
↑ El Líbero - Gonzalo Blumel, el músico-ingeniero que cautivó a Piñera y hoy es pieza clave de su nuevo engranaje - # NoticiasdelDía. March 15, 2018, archived from the original on March 15, 2018 ; Retrieved November 5, 2019 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Blumel Mac-Iver, Gonzalo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blumel Mac-Iver, Gonzalo Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean environmental engineer, politician and interior minister
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Talca

[1] Lot 274 días de Gonzalo Blumel en Interior

[2] El Mercurio SAP: Tiene 41 años y es militante de Evópoli: La carrera de Blumel antes de llegar a ser ministro de Interior | Emol.com. October 28, 2019, Retrieved November 5, 2019 (Spanish).

[3] Family tree of Gonzalo Fernando Blümel Mac-Iver. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .

[4] El Líbero - Gonzalo Blumel, el músico-ingeniero que cautivó a Piñera y hoy es pieza clave de su nuevo engranaje - # NoticiasdelDía. March 15, 2018, archived from the original on March 15, 2018 ; Retrieved November 5, 2019 (Spanish).