Tucapel Jiménez Fuentes
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Tucapel Jiménez | |
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| Ambassador of Chile at Sweden | |
| Assumed office 25 July 2022 | |
| President | Gabriel Boric |
| Preceded by | Hernán Bascuñán |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 2018 – 11 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Re-districted |
| Constituency | 13th District |
| In office 11 March 2006 – 11 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Eliana Caraball |
| Succeeded by | District created |
| Constituency | 27th District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 September 1962 |
| Party | Party for Democracy |
| Spouse | Sofía Lagos |
| Children | Three |
| Education | Technical Institute of Stockholm University of Chile (PgD) |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Public Administrator |
Tucapel Francisco Jiménez Fuentes (born 1 September 1962) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.[1]
In 2022 he was appointed by president Gabriel Boric as ambassador at Sweden.[2][3]
Tucapel Francisco Jiménez Fuentes was born on September 1, 1962, in Santiago, Chile. He is the son of Haydeé Fuentes Salinas and Tucapel Jiménez, a trade union leader who served as president of the National Association of Fiscal Employees (ANEF) between 1967 and 1970, founder of the Democratic Union of Workers in 1981, and who was assassinated in 1982 by agents of the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE) during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.[4]
He is married to Sofía Lagos and is the father of three children: Tucapel, Sebastián, and Susann.[4]
Jiménez completed his primary education at Colegio Juana Atala de Hirmas and his secondary education at Instituto Alonso de Ercilla and Colegio Academia de Humanidades Padres Dominicos in Santiago. Following the assassination of his father, he went into exile with his family in Sweden. There, he pursued higher education at the Stockholm Technical Institute, graduating as an electrical execution engineer.[4]
He later completed diploma programs in Government and Public Management and in Appraisal of Areas Subject to Expropriation at the University of Chile.[4]
Professional career
In 1988, Jiménez completed his professional internship at the Swedish company Siemens AG in the quality control department. He later joined the certification company Semko AB.[4]
After living in Sweden for thirteen years, he returned to Chile in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997, he worked at Colbún on the Colbún–Alto Jahuel SICAJ-1 transmission line project.[4]
In honor of his father’s memory, he founded the Fundación Tucapel Jiménez Alfaro, aimed at training and educating trade union leaders.[4]
In 2001, he founded his own company, Asesoría Profesional Ltda.[4]