Lucas Palacios
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Lucas Palacios | |
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 Official portrait (2019) | |
| Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism | |
| In office 28 October 2019 – 11 March 2022 | |
| President | Sebastián Piñera |
| Preceded by | Juan Andrés Fontaine |
| Succeeded by | Nicolás Grau |
| Undersecretary of Public Works | |
| In office 11 March 2018 – 28 October 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sergio Galilea |
| Succeeded by | Cristóbal Leturia Infante |
| In office 12 November 2012 – 11 March 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Loreto Silva |
| Succeeded by | Sergio Galilea |
| Counsilman of Puente Alto | |
| In office 6 December 2004 – 12 November 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 March 1974 |
| Party | Unión Demócrata Independiente (1993–1997) |
| Spouse | Unknown |
| Children | Five |
| Parent(s) | Patricio Palacios del Villar María Inés Covarrubias |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Economist |
Lucas Patricio Palacios Covarrubias (born 17 March 1974) is a Chilean politician, economist and current militant of Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI).
On 28 October 2019, he was appointed by Sebastián Piñera as Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism amid beginnings of the 2019–20 social crisis[1][2][3] where his predecessor Juan Andrés Fontaine gave controversial statements which immediately animated 18 October riots.[4]
Family
He is the son of Luis Patricio Palacios del Villar, an industrial businessman and executive director of the winery Tres Palacios, and María Inés Covarrubias Larraín.[5] Through his mother, he is a great-great-grandson of the conservative politician Ramón Covarrubias Ortúzar, who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in the late 19th century.[5]
He is married to María Francisca Medeiros Urzúa, a commercial engineer,[5] with whom he has four children.[6]
Education
He completed his primary and secondary education at Colegio Sagrados Corazones de Manquehue. He later studied commercial engineering with a concentration in business at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He also earned a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Salamanca, Spain.[6]
In August 2015, he published the poetry book Lunavela through RIL Editores.[7] In 2025, he published La mano invisible y otras ficciones, his first narrative work.