Andrés Jouannet
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Andrés Jouannet | |
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| Undersecretary of Security | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2026 | |
| President | José Antonio Kast |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 2022 – 11 March 2026 | |
| Constituency | District 23 |
| Intendant of the Araucanía Region | |
| In office 25 August 2015 – 11 November 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Francisco Huenchumilla |
| Succeeded by | Miguel Hernández Saffirio |
| Governor of Cautín Province | |
| In office 14 June 2008 – 10 December 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Yolanda Pérez |
| Succeeded by | Christian Dulansky |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 July 1967 |
| Other political affiliations | Amarillos por Chile (2022–2025) Christian Democratic Party (1984–2018) |
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| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Historian |
Andrés Alfonso Jouannet Valderrama (born 29 July 1967) is a Chilean school teacher, writer and politician. He previously served as the mayor of Araucanía Region during the second government of Michelle Bachelet.[1][2] In 2026, he was appointed as Undersecretary of Security by president-elect José Antonio Kast.[3]
Jouannet became a politician at the teen age of 17 when became active member of the Christian Democratic Youth of Chile. He was the president of the youth organization at the Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco and became close an ally of Gutenberg Martínez and Soledad Alvear. He served as a political secretary to former president Patricio Aylwin for five years.
During the first government of President Michelle Bachelet he was appointed governor of the province of Cautín but resigned form the position in 2008 same he was appointed to run for the house of Deputies election in District 52 scoring 8,988 votes placing fourth position in the contest.[4][5]
He was appointed to the second government of Bachelet in 2014 as an advisor on indigenous affairs in the Ministry of Interior and later appointed Mayor of the Araucanía Region on 25 August 2015, replacing Francisco Huenchumilla. He left this position in 2016 to run in the 2017 parliamentary election which he lost. He ran again in 2021 as an independent candidate supported by Radical Party scoring 3.35 per cent of the votes to win the seat.[6][7]
He was born in Temuco on 29 July 1967, the son of Reinaldo Edmundo Jouannet Núñez and Juana Nora Valderrama López.[8] His father is listed in the Valech Report as a victim of human rights violations committed during the military regime in Chile.[8]
He has fifteen siblings, including David Jouannet, who has served as regional director of the National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) in the Araucanía Region since 2015.[8]
He married Fabiana Cecilia Graieb on 5 October 2011.[8]
Professional life
He completed his secondary education at the Camilo Henríquez High School in Temuco in 1984.[8]
He qualified as a teacher of history and geography at the University of La Frontera in Temuco.[8]
He later obtained a PhD in philosophy, with a specialisation in political science, from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, through a scholarship awarded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. At the same institution, he earned a master's degree in history and a master's degree in political science. He also holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Chile.[8]
He worked as a scientific researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and at the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin.[8]
He has served as a professor in the Master's Programme in Government and Society at the Alberto Hurtado University and as an academic at the University of Communication Sciences and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.[8]
In addition to being a panelist on the television programme Estado Nacional on Televisión Nacional de Chile, he has worked as a columnist for Chilean and Latin American media outlets and as an international consultant for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.[8]
For five years, he served as political secretary to former president Patricio Aylwin.[8]