Raúl Figueroa | |
Birth Date: | 1975 3, df=y |
Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Office: | Minister of Education |
Term Start: | 28 February 2020 |
Term End: | 22 March 2022 |
Predecessor: | Marcela Cubillos[1] |
Successor: | Marco Antonio Ávila |
President: | Sebastián Piñera |
Office1: | Undersecretary of Education[2] |
Term Start1: | 11 March 2018 |
Term End1: | 28 October 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Valentina Quiroga Canahuate[3] |
Successor1: | Jorge Poblete Aedo |
Party: | Close to centre-right[4] |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Parents: | Luis Figueroa del Río María Eugenia Salas |
Spouse: | Paulina Campos |
Children: | Five |
Raúl Eugenio Figueroa Salas (born 21 March 1975) is a Chilean politician and lawyer.
He worked in the Ministry of Education during the entire first government of Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014), first as head of the Legal Division and then as head of advisers to the ministry.[5] During Sebastián Piñera's campaign (2017), he was coordinator of the educational program.[6]
In March 2018, he became Undersecretary of Education. On February 28, 2020, he was appointed as Minister of Education of the second government of Sebastián Piñera.[7]