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Adriana Delpiano is a Chilean politician and activist. She is the former minister of education under President Michelle Bachelet. With a broad range of expertise, Delpiano has also held various other executive positions in the Chilean government throughout her career.
Before her position at the Ministry of Education, Delpiano served as the intendant of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago and director of socio-cultural areas of the presidency within the Bachelet administration.
Delpiano also worked under the administration of president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle as the minister of natural resources and then later under Ricardo Lagos Escobar on his campaign as director-minister of the National Women’s Service and then shortly as the interim minister of the interior and undersecretary of Regional Development.
Previous to her work in the government, she was an activist for the Corperación de la Reforma Agraria and the director of Interdisciplinary Program of Research in Education at the Universidad Católica de Chile, where she was also a professor.
She holds her undergraduate degree in social work from the Universidad Católica de Chile and a master’s in education science at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de México
Delpiano was an event speaker at The Dialogue.
