Felipe Bulnes | |
Birth Date: | 1969 5, df=y |
Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Office: | Ambassador of Chile to the United States |
President: | Sebastián Pinera Michelle Bachelet |
Term Start: | March 2012 |
Term End: | April 2014 |
Predecessor: | Arturo Fermandois |
Successor: | Juan Gabriel Valdés |
Office1: | Minister of Education |
President1: | Sebastián Pinera |
Term Start1: | 18 July 2011 |
Term End1: | 29 December 2011 |
Predecessor1: | Joaquín Lavín |
Successor1: | Harald Beyer |
Office2: | Minister of Justice |
President2: | Sebastián Pinera |
Term Start2: | 11 March 2010 |
Term End2: | 18 July 2011 |
Predecessor2: | Carlos Maldonado |
Successor2: | Teodoro Ribera |
Party: | Renovación Nacional (RN) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Parents: | María Teresa Serrano Francisco Bulnes Ripamonti |
Children: | One |
Felipe Bulnes Serrano (born May 27, 1969) is a Chilean lawyer and member of the party National Renewal. He was first Minister of Justice and then he assumed office as Minister of Education following a cabinet shuffle on July 18 amidst the ongoing 2011 Chilean student protests but renounced about six months later on December 29 explaining that he left because a "cycle has finished" and not because he would be fired.[1]
In 2012, Bulnes was appointed by the government of Sebastián Piñera as ambassador to the United States, handing his credentials to President Barack Obama on May 1, 2012.[2] He was afterwards Chile's representative at the La Haya International Court, after being renewed in that post by the government of President Bachelet. On November 23, 2015 he resigned this position and was replaced by former Minister José Miguel Insulza.
He graduated from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Harvard Law School.[3]