Ernesto Silva Méndez
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Ernesto Silva | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 2010 – 11 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Julio Dittborn |
| Succeeded by | District dissolved |
| Constituency | 23rd District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 August 1975 |
| Party | Independent Democratic Union (UDI) |
| Spouse | Jimena Álamos |
| Children | Six |
| Parent(s) | Ernesto Silva Baffaluy María Cristina Méndez |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Ernesto Silva Méndez (born 15 August 1975) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.[1]
Professional career
He was born on 15 August 1975 in Santiago, the son of Ernesto Silva Bafalluy and María Cristina Méndez Ureta.[2]
He is married to Jimena Álamos and is the father of five children[2]
He studied at Colegio del Verbo Divino in Santiago, where he served as president of the Student Center in 1993.[2] He pursued higher education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, earning a Licentiate in Legal and Social Sciences in 2000 with a thesis entitled "Horizontal Mergers under United States Antitrust Law".[2] He was admitted to the bar on 8 August 2001.[2] He also participated in a student exchange program at Duke University in the United States.[2]
In 2002, he received the Presidente de la República Scholarship for postgraduate studies and was admitted to the University of Chicago, where he obtained a master's degree in Public Policy.[2] In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Madrid with the dissertation "The Chilean Senior Public Management System: A Case Study from the Principal–Agent Model Perspective".[2]
In academia, he served as a teaching assistant in courses such as Roman Law and Constitutional Law at the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.[2]
Professionally, until 2002 he worked as a legal clerk and, after qualifying as a lawyer, as an attorney at Carey y Compañía Limitada Abogados.[2] Since 2004, he has taught various economic and political courses at the Universidad del Desarrollo, where he served as Vice-Rector for Undergraduate Studies in 2007.[2] He also worked as a university evaluator through the National Accreditation Commission.[2] Additionally, he has been a columnist for La Segunda and Diario Financiero, and has published research on state modernization and political competition.[2]
After completing his parliamentary duties, he devoted himself to academia, serving as Pro-Rector and later as Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies, Continuing Education and Extension at the Universidad del Desarrollo.[2]