| Juan Carlos Jobet | |
| Birth Date: | 1975 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
| Office: | Minister of Mining |
| President: | Sebastián Piñera |
| Term Start: | 18 December 2020 |
| Term End: | 11 March 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Baldo Prokurica |
| Successor: | Marcela Hernando |
| Office1: | Minister of Energy |
| President1: | Sebastián Piñera |
| Term Start1: | 13 June 2019 |
| Term End1: | 11 March 2022 |
| Predecessor1: | Susana Jiménez Schuster |
| Successor1: | Claudio Huepe Minoletti |
| Office2: | Minister of Labor and Social Provision |
| President2: | Sebastián Piñera |
| Term Start2: | 24 July 2013 |
| Term End2: | 11 March 2014 |
| Predecessor2: | Evelyn Matthei |
| Successor2: | Javiera Blanco |
| Party: | Renovación Nacional |
| Profession: | Business administrator |
Juan Carlos Jobet Eluchans is a Chilean politician and former member of Renovación Nacional.[1] He was the Minister of Mining of Chile between 2020 and 2022.
Jobet is the son of Juan Carlos Jobet Sotomayor and the journalist Celia Eluchans. He is also a nephew of Edmundo Eluchans Urenda.
Jobet studied commercial engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has a master's degree in Business Administration and Public Administration from Harvard University.[2]
Between 2000 and 2010 Jobet worked at the company Asset.[3]
Between 2013 and 2014, Jobet served as Minister of Labor and Social Security during President Sebastián Piñera's first government. On 13 June 2019, he was appointed Minister of Energy during Piñera's second government.
Jobet entered politics with his incorporation into the organization Independientes en Red, created by Cristina Bitar. Later, he was founder, along with Felipe Kast, of a think tank called Horizontal.[2] Then, in 2010 he joined to political party Renovación Nacional.[4] At Sebastián Piñera's first government beginning, he assumed as Chief of Staff of then Minister of the Interior Rodrigo Hinzpeter. On 29 July 2011, he was appointed Undersecretary of Housing.[4] He worked there until 12 November 2012.[5] On 24 July 2013, he assumed as Minister of Labor and Social Security of Chile following Evelyn Matthei (UDI) resignation. He remained in the charge until the end of Piñera's government.
On 13 June 2019, Jobet was appointed Minister of Energy during Piñera's second government. He replaced Susana Jiménez.[1]
On 18 December 2020, he became the Minister of Mining under Sebastián Piñera.[6]
In 2004 Jobet married the historian Luz María Díaz de Valdés Herrera, daughter of the lawyer and former Club Deportivo Universidad Católica's president Manuel Díaz de Valdés. He had two daughters with her.[8]