Bettina Horst

Bettina was born in the capital city, Santiago, in 1971. She was born to Heriberto Horst Pretzer and Reinhild Von Thadden.

She attended high school at the Deutsche Schule Santiago. Then, Bettina studied business administration at Gabriela Mistral University, and later earned a master's degree in economics with a specialization in public policy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Horst was a senior researcher at the Atlas Network in Washington, D.C., and head of the Monetary Area of the Research Department of the Central Bank of Chile (1995–2000). She was also a member of the Regional Council of the Santiago Metropolitan Region (2005–2008).

She was executive director and, since May 2016, a board member of the Senior Public Management System. Since that year, Bettina began serving on the Council of the Public Enterprise System, as well as in the board of the Latin American Liberal Network.

She was a researcher, general director of the Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo, a think tank close to her political right-wing party (UDI). In June 2021, she assumed the executive direction of the institution.^[4]

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