Jessica López Saffie

From 1981 to 1990, she worked at the Banco del Desarrollo —now Scotiabank Chile—, where she held various positions. She later joined the BancoEstado during the presidency of Andrés Sanfuentes.^[8] Over a period of 24 years, she served as risk manager, comptroller, and vice-chair of the board of directors.^[9]

After a period devoted to corporate advisory work and serving as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), she returned to BancoEstado in 2014, when President Michelle Bachelet appointed her general manager. She became the first woman to hold that position within a Chilean bank.^[8]

She is also a partner and director of the Centro de Integración Cognitivo Corporal (CICC).^[10] In December 2018, she assumed the position of executive president of the National Association of Sanitary Services Companies (Andess), succeeding Víctor Galilea Page.^[11]

She has also served as a corporate director at Itaú Bank,^[10] as an advisor to Comunidad Mujer, and as a board member of the Foro Educativo and TIGRA foundations.^[12]

On 26 April 2022, she was appointed chair of BancoEstado by President Gabriel Boric, becoming the first woman to hold that position. She served in that role until 10 March 2023, when, during the second cabinet reshuffle of the Boric administration, she was appointed Minister of Public Works, replacing architect Juan Carlos García Pérez de Arce.^[13]

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