Fernando Atria
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(2010–2019)
Common Force (2020–2022)
Social Convergence (2022–2024)
- Universidad de Chile (LL.B, 1994)
- University of Edinburgh (Ph.D. in Laws, 1999)
Fernando Atria | |
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| Member of the Constitutional Convention | |
| In office 4 July 2021 – 4 July 2022 | |
| Constituency | 10th District |
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| Born | 30 October 1968 |
| Party | Socialist Party (2010–2019) Common Force (2020–2022) Social Convergence (2022–2024) |
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| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Fernando Atria Lemaitre (born 30 October 1968) is a Chilean intellectual, lawyer, university teacher and politician. Atria has been an avid participant of the intellectual debates about reforms in the Chilean education system and the Constitution of Chile.
He has been called by El Mostrador "the ideologue of the 2011 Chilean student protests".[1] Writing in El Desconcierto in 2018 pundit Rodrigo Karmy Bolton posits that Fernando Atria is Axel Kaiser's main "intellectual enemy".[2] Similarly, there have been centre-right intellectuals like Hugo Eduardo Herrera who have been strong critics of Atria.[3]
In the 2021 Chilean Constitutional Convention election Atria won a seat into the Constitutional Convention that drafted a new constitution proposal for Chile.[4][5] During this time Atria made frequent TV appearances defending the work of the convention and the proposed constitution.
Atria was born on 30 October 1968 in Queens, New York City, United States.[6] He is the son of Raúl Atria, a lawyer and sociologist, and María José Lemaitre, a sociologist.[6]
He is married to lawyer Ximena Fuentes Torrijos, a Doctor of International Law from the University of Oxford and Director of the National Directorate of Borders and Limits of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile), with whom he has three children.[6]
