Eduardo Castillo Vigouroux
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Eduardo Castillo Vigoroux | |
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| Member of the Constitutional Convention | |
| In office 4 July 2021 – 4 July 2022 | |
| Constituency | 23rd District |
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| Born | 25 June 1950 |
| Party | Party for Democracy |
| Alma mater | University of Chile (LL.B) Temuco Catholic University (LL.M) |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Eduardo Castillo Vigouroux (born 25 June 1950) is a Chilean lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Party for Democracy (PPD).[1][2][3][4]
He served as a member of the Constitutional Convention, representing the 23rd electoral district of the Araucanía Region. He previously served as a municipal councillor of Temuco (1992–1996) and Padre Las Casas (1996–2004), and acted as coordinator of the Convention’s Transitional Provisions Committee.[1]
In 2013, he was appointed as dean of the Faculty of Law of the Temuco Catholic University.[5]
Castillo Vigoroux was born on 25 June 1950. He is the son of Salustio Javier Castillo López and Estela Evencia Vigouroux Meneses.[1]
He completed his secondary education at Colegio San Ignacio in Santiago. He studied law at the University of Chile,[6] qualifying as a lawyer in 1979. He later obtained a Master’s degree in Constitutional Law from the Temuco Catholic University (UCT) and holds a postgraduate diploma in Applied Political Science from the University of Chile.
Professionally, he has worked at the Vicariate of Solidarity of the Archdiocese of Santiago, the Indigenous Institute Foundation of the Diocese of Temuco, and as head of legal affairs of the Regional Government of Araucanía.[1] He has also been affiliated with human rights organizations such as the Chilean Commission of Human Rights and Amnesty International (Chilean section).[1] He is a professor of Administrative Law and served for four years as dean of the Faculty of Legal Sciences at the UCT.[1]