Marcela Ríos
Marcela Ríos | |
|---|---|
Ríos in March 2022 | |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 11 March 2022 – 7 January 2023 | |
| President | Gabriel Boric |
| Preceded by | Hernán Larraín |
| Succeeded by | Luis Cordero Vega |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 December 1966 |
| Party | Social Convergence[1] |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Sociologist |
Marcela Alejandra Ríos Tobar (born 14 December 1966) is a Chilean politician and sociologist who served as Chile's Minister of Justice from March 2022 to January 2023.[1][2][3][4]
Family and education
She is the daughter of Carlos Gonzalo Ríos Gordillo and Hilda Luisa Tobar Silva. She completed her higher education in sociology at the University of York in Canada, and later earned a master’s degree in social sciences at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Mexico City, graduating in 1994.
She also completed a PhD in political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States.[5]
Public career
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]
References
- ^ a b "Marcela Ríos, la futura ministra de Justicia de Gabriel Boric". Radio Cooperativa. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ Tejos, Paulina (21 January 2022). "Quién es Marcela Ríos, la nueva ministra de Justicia de Gabriel Boric". La Tercera. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ "Presionada por anuncio de acusación constitucional y denuncia por prevaricación: Marcela Ríos sale del Ministerio de Justicia antes de completar 10 meses en el cargo". La Tercera. 7 January 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ "Chile's justice minister resigns in face of opposition to protester pardons". The Guardian. 2023-01-07. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ a b c Tejos, Paulina (2022-01-21). "Quién es Marcela Ríos, la nueva ministra de Justicia de Gabriel Boric". La Tercera. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ^ "Universidad de Chile y PNUD suscriben convenio para desarrollar proyecto "Definición y reconocimiento de estándares de igualdad de género"". UNDP (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 April 2025.
- ^ "Government of Chile: Ministry of Justice and Human Rights". www.gob.cl. 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Presidente Boric elige a Marcela Ríos como nueva ministra de Justicia y Derechos Humanos". El Mostrador. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "Marcela Ríos resigns from the Ministry of Justice before completing ten months in office". La Tercera. Retrieved 7 January 2023.