Marcela Ríos

She has worked in both the public and private sectors, including more than fourteen years at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where she served as a governance officer for UNDP Chile and later as Deputy Resident Representative.^[6]

She also served as vice president of the board of the organization Comunidad Mujer.^[5] In parallel, she was a professor at the University of Chile, the University of Santiago, Chile, and the Diego Portales University.^[5]

During the first government of Michelle Bachelet, she was a member of the Commission for Electoral System Reform (2006). Under the second government of Bachelet, she participated in the commissions for Pension System Reform (2014–2015) and the Commission Against Conflicts of Interest, Influence Peddling and Corruption (2015).^[7]

A feminist and a member of the Convergencia Social (CS) party, on 21 January 2022 she was appointed Minister of Justice and Human Rights by then president-elect Gabriel Boric, becoming the seventh woman to hold the post.^[8] She assumed office on 11 March 2022, with the formal start of the administration.

She resigned from the ministry on 7 January 2023, following the filing of a impeachment against her related to the government’s granting of thirteen presidential pardons to individuals involved in acts of violence during the social unrest of October 2019.^[9]

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