María Paz Troncoso

A graduate of the University of Chile and the Universidad del Desarrollo, Paz Troncoso was the director of the Communal Planning Secretariat of the Municipality of Santiago from 2009 until 2012.^[1] She also served in the same role at La Florida between 2004 and 2008, Lo Barnechea between 2015 and 2016, and in the Municipality of La Reina from 2016 to 2018.^[1]

Under the first government of Sebastián Piñera, Paz Troncoso worked as an advisor to Miguel Flores [es].^[1] On November 20, 2020, after the resignation of Juan Manuel Masferrer, President Sebastián Piñera appointed her to assume the position of Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development, being the third woman and the first without political affiliation in the position.^[2] Paz Troncoso died on July 23, 2024, at the age of 48.^[3]