Angel Flisfisch | |
Office: | Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Chile |
President: | Michelle Bachelet |
Term Start: | 18 November 2009 |
Term End: | 11 March 2010 |
Predecessor: | Alberto van Klaveren |
Successor: | Fernando Schmidt |
Office2: | Chilean Undersecretary of the Navy |
President2: | Ricardo Lagos |
Term Start2: | 2000 |
Term End2: | 2002 |
Predecessor2: | Renán Fuentealba Vildósola |
Successor2: | Patricio Morales Aguirre |
Office3: | Chilean Undersecretary of Aviation |
President3: | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
Term Start3: | 13 November 1995 |
Term End3: | 11 March 2000 |
Predecessor3: | Mario Fernández Baeza |
Successor3: | Nelson Hadad Heresy |
Office4: | Undersecretary General of the Presidency of Chile |
President4: | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
Term Start4: | 11 March 1994 |
Term End4: | 1 June 1995 |
Predecessor4: | Ricardo Solari |
Successor4: | Jorge Rosenblut Ratinoff |
Birth Date: | 1941 5, df=y |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Alma Mater: | University of Chile |
Residence: | Santiago, Chile |
Ángel Flisfisch Fernández (9 May 1941 – 8 May 2022) was a Chilean diplomat lawyer, researcher, and politician. He held various relevant positions during the administrations of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia governed the country between 1990 and 2010. He served as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Chile from 2009 to 2010 and Ambassador of Chile in Singapore.[1] [2] [3]
He studied law at the University of Chile and did postgraduate studies in political science at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and at the University of Michigan, where he obtained a master's degree in political science.[4]
He served as Undersecretary of Aviation, Under Secretary of the Navy, and Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He also held the position of Secretary Pro Tempore of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), and Director of Planning of the Foreign Affairs. At the academic level, he was director of FLACSO in Santiago and a member of the board of directors of Universidad Diego Portales. He also published in the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) and the Center for Public Studies (CEP).[5] [6]